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I like the design. However, save draft button is not working for me.

A fast algorithm for parity would be interesting. There is currently no better way to compute parity than factoring N. There is a well known hand wavy-argument that computing any f…

"..that many people suspect of being compromisable by NSA etc." If it was a backdoor you certainly can't count it among the NSAs successes. It is never used.

I agree this is a good idea but I think using the words "encrypt" and "decrypt" confuses the goal a little bit as this idea is still useful even if the message aren't required to b…

"So post a PGP key and say, if you really want anonymity, use this." PGP only provides confidentiality, not anonymity. To get anonymity as well would require TOR.

The only reason to use one-time pads is an extraordinary level of paranoia. If you are paranoid enough to need a one-time pad then it makes little sense for you as a private citize…

I think it is mainly a logistical issue. The problem is that encryption keys are a single point of failure. IT practices at most businesses would have to be very rigorous before a …

Nitpick: RSA isn't known to be backed by factoring. More precisely, there is no proof that if textbook-RSA encrypted messages could be decrypted quickly that integer factorization …

The author's argument is that the probability of impact on ECC of this line of research is less than probability of an impact on factoring. Post-quantum cryptography has to avoid E…

It makes no sense to argue that a non-existent product is vulnerable to a current exploit without a precise definition or specification of that product. Its an obvious mistake but …

Don't forget that when decrypted the result must match the operation performed on the corresponding plaintexts.

I don't see a reason this argument would apply to simulated rape but not simulated murder. A large number of people enjoy watching realistic simulated murder in movies, in TV, and …

Of course anyone can follow you in public, the alternative would be impossible to enforce. The problem is that the cost of getting that data could be made unacceptably low. For exa…

You are comfortable relying on stalkers not being persistent enough to search a list, save some metadata, and use google maps?

"you don't need scientific evidence to know" "but it seems as intuitive" Knowledge can come only from reasoning based upon observations. You cannot know anything by intuition. You …

I love some of the SO sites but they have a lot of communities that have been lingering in beta limbo for ages. I would be interested in more detail on how they reached the conclus…

It is not clear that's what it is being said.

I'm not arguing that there aren't situations where then spreading the belief that their capabilities are less than actual would be a good thing. If the goal is to break a specific …

Cryptography software is usually critical but I think unlike the code for planes and nuclear power plants it doesn't necessarily have to be. Typically cryptography software is adve…

Anonymous sources might be supplying real information but they could also be trying to manage beliefs. Undoubtedly the NSA is ahead of everyone else in cryptanalysis but I think it…

"it's just a matter of time before RSA offers zero security" This is not the only possible outcome. Scalable quantum computing could turn out to be impractical due to cost. Or new …

So either the NSA wanted a backdoor, in which case we learn that even the NSA can't build a backdoor that academic cryptographers can't detect. Or, much more likely I think, it was…

I agree that if the game is fun people will play it. The problem is getting them to try the game for long enough to know if it is fun. Popularity is obviously a factor in achieving…

The camp of people are both feminists and who care about making arguments based on good science called to say they want you to stop pretending they don't exist.