This is the thousandth time I've clicked on a "crypto" article expecting it to be about cryptography, and instead it's about blockchain/cryptocurrencies.
Is this a losing battle?
Is this a losing battle?
Because I just can't wrap my head around the fact that anyone who knows what a cryptocurrency is, is somehow unaware of all the massive prior art indicating that crypto=cryptography.
It's like calling light bulbs "glowing pears" (jk, I love the German language <3).
You probably understand all of this and this is you exerting social pressure against change you disagree with. I say best to just get used to it. Wait until these get-rich-quick schemes stop working and we can have our abbreviation back. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up waiting decades or longer though.
Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter "crypto" slang.
I wish I had sql or something hn submissions. If it has crypto in the title but block chain in the article, I'm not interested....!
"But now, in light of the leaked NSA documents, NIST is reevaluating the cohort of random-number generators that includes Dual EC DRBG, and it has opened a public forum on its website where the cryptography community can raise concerns." - https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/can-you-trust-nis... (2013)
"Anyone possessing that second set of numbers would have what’s known in the cryptography community as “trapdoor information” – that is, they would be able to essentially unlock the encryption algorithm by predicting what the random number generator generated." - https://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/ (2013)
"It was declassified on 24 June 1998, shortly after its basic design principle had been discovered independently by the public cryptography community." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(cipher)
"The cryptography community has long known that generating random numbers requires great care and is easy to do poorly; Netscape learned this lesson somewhat painfully." - http://www.ddj.com/windows/184409807 (1996)
"Would the cryptography community be better off if only the NSA did patent reviews?" - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/216c/216af763d36f3f35dc9f33... (1988)