DJB's Cryptographic Odyssey: From Code Hero to Standards Gadfly

https://cryptography.watch/articles/djb-cryptographic-odyssey/

DJB's Cryptographic Odyssey: From Code Hero to Standards Gadfly

Independent analysis of cryptography standards, protocols, and the people who shape them.

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This reads very LLM-y, misses huge chunks of the story (multiple paragraphs on "clamping" and static ECDH, a single line on Ristretto and nothing on signature schemes, which is where that matters), has a breathless tone about Chapoly and Nacl that is totally unwarranted, misses almost all the NIST PQC drama, most of which was not in fact about hybrid cryptography, and in the end doesn't offer any analysis, just this bad re-telling.

My guess is someone had this generated as part of some dumb pressure campaign. It's weird.

Going a bit meta - this blog seems strange as its only other story is criticizing a member of the go community. The OP has posted this story, done so twice (first time was flagged) and has no other comments on HN.

There may also be a downvote brigade in this comment section.

I think this must be a bit. On the one hand you have this story about Bernstein, someone who has made a pastime out of weaponizing process in consensus organizations to drag progress to a halt when he's failed to coerce his preferred outcome; on the other hand you have a story villainizing Filippo Valsorda for not doing that, and avoiding standards organizations altogether.