alt Hacker News(a) I'm complaining about the messed up syntax and symbol soup.
https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2024/burton/...
This code is fairly easy to understand, too, then.
(b) No, it would definitely not look "pretty similar".
(c) So what? You talked about abstractions in cryptographic code. Abstractions are layers to hide things. That is bad in crypto code.
Hiding things is totally great in crypto code! When I’m implementing signature verification, I shouldn’t have to worry how the underlying, eg, field or elliptic curve algebra is implemented!
In fact there have been many crypto bugs which insufficiently abstract this kind of stuff away.