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The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

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Re: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a layman version of this? Something non cryptographers can grasp?

here is a quote: > designers of Streebog and Kuznyechik purposefully hid a structure in this component. This structure is very strong, very uncommon and interacts in a non-trivial way with the other main component of Streebog. > In light of these results, we urge security professionals to avoid these algorithms. It's like this: imagine some government released plans for super-secure safe, and for some reason, deep in…

Sorry, I should've been clearer. I was asking if there was a mathematical treatment aimed at a generally educated audience. I understand elliptic curves even if I don't fully know the ins and outs of the diffie hellman and how it is used there. So like non cryptographers but generally technical people.

Re: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

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- Clickbait title: Check. - Half-admission that the clickbait title might not apply (at the end of the article by mentioning Hanlon's Razor): Check. - Actual good criticism on "don't roll your own crypto": Check (this is not a sarcasm, I liked that part of the article very much). - Casual mention that the incident is from 7 years ago but implying that today there's a backdoor: Check. - HN going crazy negative when Te…

I believe that most of this non-constructive hate is coming from unconscious part of mind and specifically from "us versus them" mentality. Telegram is obviously belong to "them" for the wast majority of people at the West, resulting in negative attitude by default. Moreover, it's socially acceptable among "us" and is encouraged to display negative feeling toward "them"-related things, resulting in what we all can see.
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