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by tedunangst 3972 days ago
"If BLAKE isn't intended for cryptography then it's not a direct competitor to SHA-3."

If you didn't know that BLAKE was one of the entries in the SHA3 competition (one of the finalists in fact), I think you are out of your depth.
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laumars 3972 days ago
Those two points aren't mutually inclusive. I do understand cryptography and hashes - maybe not to a security researchers level nor be up to date with the latest proposals - but that doesn't mean I'm out of my depth to ask the questions I've been asking either.

Furthermore, the way you conduct yourself in these posts isn't exactly helpful. You're condescending and terse. Your comments contain the bare minimum information (or in the case of this latest exchange, no useful information what-so-ever) and it feels very much like you're more interested in winning ego points than you are in educating someone who could clearly benefit from your greater wisdom. Which is sad because without that exchange of knowledge, these kinds of threads will keep happening.

edit: that said, I did appreciate your comment about hardware vs software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012537 so thank you for that post :)

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tedunangst 3972 days ago
If you're interested in learning, ask more questions. This thread started off with some dubious statements, and when that was pointed out, you dug in deeper and deeper. That doesn't inspire much confidence that you will appreciate someone taking the time to educate you. Hence, the terseness.
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laumars 3972 days ago
My first draft of that post was more question-based than statement-based but for some reason I thought the rewritten version was better presented. In hindsight that was really poor judgement on my part. Sorry for that. But I assure you that I'm very much interested in learning :)

The "digging deeper" was more down to responding to other people who had misunderstood my original comment. And lets be honest, there has been a lot of that as well.

edit: oh jeez, someone's been on the rampage with the ▾ clicking. I think it's time I get HN a break because the moderation on here has really been bugging me in recent months. I know it's a tired cliche, but I'm sure this community used to be less hostile. </soliloque>

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