Comment by cryptonector
2 years ago
If TFA were by a nobody I might agree, but TFA is by DJB and/or Tanja Lange, and they're not nobodies. These things need to be at least somewhat adversarial partly because that's what it takes to do cryptanalysis, and partly because of past shenanigans. It goes with the territory and the politics. It's unavoidable.
One can be combative and adversarial and still write succinctly and persuasively.
This text does DJB no favors. He comes across like a conspiracy theorist, based on the form of the content alone.