The current link is blogspam for the original article by The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/24/emperor-charle...
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: changed now from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/charles-v-of-.... Thanks! (However, it's also a dupe - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33791685)
It is, and it isn't.
Functionally, for the reader of Hacker News, it has the same form of and effect as blogspam. It's a blog entry, it doesn't add much, and it just links to the real content.
But presumably it lacks the intent of blogspam. Bruce Schneier's blog has quality original content, and nobody is trying to game the system. Probably Schneier just wrote this blog entry to bring an interesting story to his readers' attention, and one of them posted it here.
> The team has not yet issued a full translation, which they are saving for an academic paper.
> A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic. This becomes a waste of the reader's time forcing them to click through the blog to get to the actual article. Often submitted to sites like Digg or Reddit.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Bruce Schneier is one of the most famous cryptography researchers. I doubt he needs more traffic. Intent matters, and when he reposts and summarises a Guardian article, this is probably done for the benefit of readers who already follow his blog.
The answer is pretty boring, just a standard communique between two leaders during a conflict and talk about a previously unknown murder plot (which was just a rumour). The meat is the cipher.