I'm not qualified to judge technical content, but I find it incredibly difficult to get any value from djb's posts.
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250118-flight.html
I find them extremely tl;dr -- poorly organized for the purpose of being understood, heavy with unnecessary references, and rife with repetitive invocations of his own soapboxes.
It feels like everyone else who passes them around and nods sagely (but never summarizes or extracts key points) doesn't actually understand them either -- an "emperor has no clothes" situation.
If his purpose is to persuade about three people who actually understand what he's saying, and paper the rest of us with a storm of packets, I guess they're working? Even if they're accurate, my college communications professor would give them an F or for failure to understand or connect to the audience.
Honestly, I assume he really is right. I just don't think it's helping.
@tychotithonus who is djb?
I don't think I've ever heard that handle, which may or may not kind of support what you're saying here, If what's being posted isn't worth being reposted enough to really get around.
@tychotithonus thanks, I might have to catch up on it. Although from your description, I might have to set aside a good amount of time to read through it 🙂
@volkris @tychotithonus Prominent cryptographer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein?wprov=sfla1
Important because his work has avoided, by his association with Canadian academia, some concerns that all our modern cryptography is otherwise within the orbit of the NSA.
@volkris
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250118-flight.html