Sean, Marcin, and I spent the better part of a year individually replying to tens of thousands of emails from people doing the Cryptopals challenges that we wrote and published for free. Do you know how much work that was? Here's a hint: it was a lot of work.
There are a lot of charges you can level at me to try to win a dumb message board argument, but the one where I want cryptography to be a secret priesthood known only to the anointed select is not one of them --- nor is the argument that I haven't taken the time to help make these kinds of cryptographic attacks easier for people to learn about.
Please immediately find one of those other arguments to substitute for this one, and, if you have it in you, take a moment to retract.
I do sincerely apologize for taking my frustrations out on you, because you have indeed gone above and beyond the call to help make crypto accessible.
Nonetheless, I still stand by the substance of my comment: when you (not you specifically, but anyone) say, "You have to know X" you should check that doing a Google search for X yields some reasonable results, and if it doesn't, provide a hint on how to proceed.
> Nonetheless, I still stand by the substance of my comment: when you (not you specifically, but anyone) say, "You have to know X" you should check that doing a Google search for X yields some reasonable results, and if it doesn't, provide a hint on how to proceed.
Do you actually believe you are personally entitled to demand special research tips from domain experts?
I don't think it's too much to ask for links to resources.
If it's a common enough remedy that needs linking, you could just write a dedicated blog post describing the recommended resources or whatever and just link to that.
Sometimes the hard part of researching things is knowing what to look for or where to look for it.
This is more an indictment of the whole community that there aren’t clear glossaries or other introductory resources with good google juice, and doesn’t necessarily reflect much on your specific comment or intent.
He could have phrased it much better, but I think you’re also overreacting.
I thought so too, but then I read his comment downthread about how my wording "rubbed his nose" into the fact that he doesn't know what a carry propagation bug is. Sorry, I stand by what I wrote.
Sean, Marcin, and I spent the better part of a year individually replying to tens of thousands of emails from people doing the Cryptopals challenges that we wrote and published for free. Do you know how much work that was? Here's a hint: it was a lot of work.
There are a lot of charges you can level at me to try to win a dumb message board argument, but the one where I want cryptography to be a secret priesthood known only to the anointed select is not one of them --- nor is the argument that I haven't taken the time to help make these kinds of cryptographic attacks easier for people to learn about.
Please immediately find one of those other arguments to substitute for this one, and, if you have it in you, take a moment to retract.
Thanks in advance.