On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Maxim Kammerer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Where else would a bunch of butthurt self-proclaimed "experts" attack a > developer and a product > for voluntarily offering a contest for breaking a protocol? With an > obvious conflict of interest, no less. Moreover, the "brilliant" > attack consists of trivial and obvious accusations that the contest > cannot cover certain types of weaknesses Moxie's point was that a cryptosystem can be obviously broken in multiple different ways and its creator might still not lose such a contest (though Telegram did). The Telegram "contest" was much more a PR stunt then a serious attempt at a sort of "bug bounty" for the system's design and implementation -- Tony Arcieri
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