One priceless line from Ethan Heilman to support that observation: Probably best not to use informal stackoverflow answers and Wikipedia for understanding the security of your system.
Yowza.
Yowza.
I read through the whole exchange and kept thinking "How are they managing to be so polite, to these rank amateurs who show no respect?" I probably would have informed them of the flaw, informed them when I was publishing, informed of a suggested fix then piped all the rest to /dev/null.
I also positively love the use of "push it to the limit".
> Did you receive the invite? We can also setup a chat with our ex-NSA post-Quantum hash function experts after we get the initial confusion out of the way.
"Can you explain to me what you think I did wrong in my program? I can assure you everything is correct. Otherwise you're clearly drunk and out to get me."
hahahaha fuck me, this is good stuff.
Neha's "I'm going to stop responding now." should have come much earlier.
Which is the real "yowza" imho.
Being in the green just means you’ve convinced a critical mass of greedy, ignorant people that you’re a winner.
Let your fingers do the walking.