Oh, I did not mean to say it would be a piece of cake. Yes, side channels can be a nightmare to track down. But it's not a matter of knowing cryptography. It's a matter of knowing your
platform. The rule (don't let data flow from secrets to the side channel), remains dead simple.
Think Go (the board game). The rules are much simpler than Chess, and the game itself arguably deeper (for instance, effective Go AIs appeared much later than effective Chess AIs).
> Yeah dude, stuff like this is EXACTLY what most people don't want to think about, and shouldn't have to think about
Selecting yourself out is fine. And apparently you're doing it for all the right reasons: too much investment, not worth your time.
One of my goals was to address the "how hard can it be?" eyes wide would be cryptographer. Well, this hard. More or less.
> I reject his premise as well that this guidance prevents good people from pursuing Crypto as a field of study - as far as I can tell it's not discouraging anyone with actual interest in it.
I confess I'm not quite sure about this one. I'll just note that we've seen people bullied out of some fields. (I recall stories of women being driven out on competitive gaming that way.) A constant stream of "don't roll your own crypto" is not exactly bullying, but I can see it be a tad discouraging. To give you an example, here's the kind of mockery I have to face, even now.
https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1287113393439035392
Think Go (the board game). The rules are much simpler than Chess, and the game itself arguably deeper (for instance, effective Go AIs appeared much later than effective Chess AIs).
> Yeah dude, stuff like this is EXACTLY what most people don't want to think about, and shouldn't have to think about
Selecting yourself out is fine. And apparently you're doing it for all the right reasons: too much investment, not worth your time.
One of my goals was to address the "how hard can it be?" eyes wide would be cryptographer. Well, this hard. More or less.
> I reject his premise as well that this guidance prevents good people from pursuing Crypto as a field of study - as far as I can tell it's not discouraging anyone with actual interest in it.
I confess I'm not quite sure about this one. I'll just note that we've seen people bullied out of some fields. (I recall stories of women being driven out on competitive gaming that way.) A constant stream of "don't roll your own crypto" is not exactly bullying, but I can see it be a tad discouraging. To give you an example, here's the kind of mockery I have to face, even now.
https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1287113393439035392