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Most people are not bashing just for the sake of bashing. Some people need good cryptography software to avoid imprisonment, or torture, or state-killing. This isn't about stopping someone's teen-angsty poetry from being discovered by a sibling, it's about protecting political dissidents from an oppressive regime. In that context pointing out that a software is broken is not mindless bashing, it is a crucial part of…
I don't think your arguments make a lot of sense: > It would have been much more useful for a neutral party to do a comparative analysis and stated the pros and cons of each side. And what would this neutral party be? > As for me and most normal users, the security we need is not from NSA type of snooping but from mid level risks. There may be some sacrifices that may have to be made. Just like the position Ubuntu pl…
He also, AFAICR, did not appear over confident, he was clear in delineating what his application does and does not protect against, and what his goals are (that is one reason why he deserves these crypto credentials).
He published his entire source code.
And when he launched a contest, it was in the form of a bug bounty, he accepted any kind of bugs (up to and including spelling errors in his code comments :) ).