Re: XMR vs DRK

Quote from: smooth on March 29, 2015, 02:20:33 AM

Quote from: BlockaFett on March 29, 2015, 02:13:36 AM

this should be a warning to all XMR investors: http://web.archive.org/web/20141106091836/http://www.cryptobang.com/2014/10/05/what-nsa-created-cryptonote-for/

NSA being well known for building complex vulnerabilities into systems that can then be exploited to provide backdoors...if the designer of your platform has these intentions there is no way to know what all the vulnerabilities can be. Look at the recent Heartbleed 'bug' that went on for at least 2 years with NSA using it...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers

No one in the market is going to touch a coin that is built on code that had NSA design involvement, especially people seeking anonymity.

Coupled with the fact core devs 'smooth' and 'fluffy' spout about honesty and integrity then spend a large amount of time trolling the competition, and asking for donations to 'speed up', (NTM all volume through Poloniex...) there are a lot of red flags IMO.

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Find a source for that nsa story besides 'cryptobang' where any troller can pay 1 btc to have some dumb story written.

In fact the crypto code in monero comes from DJB the renowned cryptographer who is as close to a mortal enemy of the NSA as you will ever find.

The story is ridiculous. It's good trollbait though. If anyone cites it we know they are trolling and not doing any actual research.

i can see why you don't like that 'source' and are asking me to find a new one:

"It is likely that CN developers deliberately neglected the Bernsteins rationale in order to make the backdoor possible. By inferring malice aforethought on the CN developers part we may as well call them crooks. The vulnerability is exploited by allowing to whoever has the knowledge to recover users private keys thereby de-anonymizing them through ring signature and key image compromisation. "