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Why didn't you come out with it?
by JasonPunyon 13y ago
Why didn't you come out with it?
- maaku 13y agoJust speculating, but maybe he is a U.S. person justifiably concerned about sticking out his neck?
- ig1 13y agoI imagine professional courtesy, it's considered incredibly rude to disclose another researchers discovery before they've announced it.
- JasonPunyon 13y agoSorry. I interpreted tptacek's first line as that he'd known about the patent and what it contained independently for "a little while". (It was a patent after all. Isn't that public information?) Or was the news not the existence of the patent referenced on the tweet?
- owenmarshall 13y agoI can't speak for tptacek, but what I think he means (when he says "Been waiting a little while for this one to come out.") is that he's been waiting a while for confirmation that Dual EC was explicitly designed as an RNG with an escrow system. I don't think he meant that he knew about it - instead, he was saying that there was evidence to be found that would demonstrate this. But I'm not tptacek, so who knows what he really means.
- tptacek 13y agoWhat a weird question.
- JasonPunyon 13y agoI'm absolutely certain that my brain is just fundamentally misreading your first sentence.
- maaku 13y agoThe first sentence of your post could be interpreted to mean that you knew about this for "a little while" but decided not to inform the rest of us, in which case I don't think it's that weird to ask "why didn't you tell us?"
- tptacek 13y agoBecause I wasn't at liberty to.
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- wreegab 13y agoThen why did you answer "What a weird question" instead of just saying so?
- tptacek 13y agoWhat other answer could there have been?
- Dylan16807 13y agoThe initial comment was possibly ambiguous as to whether you had known about this specific thing. Even after that is clarified, it could have been professional courtesy rather than 'not at liberty', and possibly other reasons would have worked too.
- ghshephard 13y agoIt was the same question I had, in good faith, when I read your comment. In fact, it over rode (in my mind) everything else you wrote - I kept asking myself, "Why was he waiting for it to come out? Did he discover it, and not tell other people? Was he wondering whether this existed, but had not found it? Did he have a colleague tell him they were onto something, and he was waiting for them to publish. Has he known all about this the entire time, and was waiting for the other shoe to drop?" To some degree, that one sentence, by itself at the head of your comment, captured all of my attention.
- tptacek 13y agoAgain, this is so weird. But: ok.