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3 points by merah on Aug 1, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I really wish people wouldn't base their claims on security contests like this: "nobody has claimed the reward so it must be secure" is fundamentally a really bad argument, and - as Moxie's article on the Telegram crypto contest [1] demonstrates - it's easy to design constraints that look reasonable but in fact make the contest unwinnable, regardless of the scheme's security.

[1]: http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/




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