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tptacektoday at 3:08 AM1 replyview on HN

The problem here is that for too many people, Bernstein is one of two living cryptographers with name recognition.


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eqvinoxtoday at 3:21 AM

Ah I see what you were trying to say. It read to me (with "He's a cryptographer. You're describing cryptographers.") like you were dismissing that knowledge about implementing and shipping cryptographic libraries is a relevant expertise (or that every cryptographer would have that, which they absolutely don't.) But, yeah, he's one among a whole bunch of experts in some of these fields and certainly shouldn't be given special weight just due to his name recognition.

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