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It's not specific to cryptography. There is a hierarchy in all fields: 1. Top researchers come up with algorithms and techniques - The research corpus revie
by jvehent 13y ago
It's not specific to cryptography. There is a hierarchy in all fields:
1. Top researchers come up with algorithms and techniques
- The research corpus reviews them
2. Top programmers implements these techniques
- The programmers communities review them
3. Top engineers write books to explain these techniques
- which everybody else relies on in their tools
1 knows more than 2 which knows more than 3. But each group needs the two others, and the rest of the worlds needs all of them. People who write books are rarely the same people who come up with cryptographic breakthrough. Instead, they are engineers, and they can use a bit of help to get things right.
Your review was harsh, because you know more. What, I think, was missing from it is a bit of "This is a great first step, let me help you make it better so we can move everybody else forward. Here are my comments."
- MattRogish 13y agoWhen you see someone repeatedly walking up the down escalator you don't give them an attaboy when they reach the top. You tell them to use the right escalator.
- Varcht 13y agoHow can publishing a book purporting to be the way to do security be considered a first step? A first step would be to get some feed back from experts prior to publishing. This is the real world where this information is critical to our future, not something to be taken lightly. On a human level I have some sympathy for the writer but professionally I think Tptacek's response is completely acceptable and am glad I read it.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoA short time ago in the information critical real world someone was quietly exploiting the bug that would become CVE-2014-0160 (heartbleed). Today your iphone uses really bad software [0]. Today it is easy to be a critic. As for Tp*'s professionalism, can you figure out if he wants the world to improve or stay the same? [0] http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
- mathattack 13y agoPerhaps blogs are better for testing ideas than books?