[ke88y]

LOL what? Keeping private keys private is not "security through obscurity". Or if it is then basically all security is security through obscurity.

No one is posting their private keys on github, and when they do their crypto goes poof nearly instantly. None of the exchanges publish their threat model documents. I sure as shit don't tell people where I store my private keys.

The bitcoin whitepaper and code are more analogous to the ISO standard, which is public.

[everfree]

I must have missed something. Wasn't the person you replied to talking about design documents? I don't think they suggested credentials like private keys should be public.

[patmorgan23]

Non-sequitur. OP never said anything about posting private keys publicly.

They did talk about having the entire system's source code/design publicly available.