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Something that irritates all cryptographers!

I'm not really into either and it annoys me.

There is non-trivial overlap between the two, especially in projects using fairly advanced crypto like zkSNARKs, threshold signing protocols, pairing-based accumulators, etc. in general the cryptocurrency space is far ahead of normal tech in deploying advanced cryptography.

Submission title has it now: “Themes from Real World Crypto(graphy) 2022”

If we’re gonna ditch bad abbreviations, though, how about NB? It’s not in common use in most places, and isn’t much shorter than, say, “Note:”.

I think it's fun and pretentious, so I vote to keep it! Besides, "NB" emphasizes that we should note well, not just note. Are you implying we should note /poorly/???

Yeah it's probably not practical, though. But does everything have to be?

When the abbreviation exists to save time, yes.

That's why it exists for you maybe! For me it exists to be fun and historical.

Then you might be neglecting the needs of a major party in your communications.

Thanks, I updated the title to make it clearer.

For those of us still beating the "crypto == cryptography" drum, maybe it'd be more satisfying to leave the title as it was ;)

LOL so true