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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by sneak on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:55PM (#27213656)
It's important to remember that these people are also the kind of industry personalities that would speak at and participate in a conference run by an organization in 2004 that backdoored their crypto products for government bribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

I'm of the belief now that those associated with the RSA conference are more interested in the publicity/reach of the conference than anything technical. They've pretty firmly positioned themselves outside of technology and far up the orifice of "industry" now. Maybe it's worth watching for policy wonks, but I skip the whole thing.

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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by wglb on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:06PM (#27213775)
Well, the conference essentially just borrows the name, in effect. The conference is highly vendor oriented, unlike Blackhat or Defcon. The speakers, however are RSA themselves. Keep in mind that they are no longer associated with the company.

And the theme "crypto means cryptography" is a losing battle, I think.

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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by sschueller on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:30PM (#27214078)
Either defcon or blackhat had as their keynote speaker the head of the NSA. Wtf.

Try that at the CCC conference . Never going to happen.

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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by wglb on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:01PM (#27214404)
I never anticipated that NSA would speak at either of those two . . .
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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by sneak on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:35PM (#27215767)
Defcon, being in Nevada (a state owned 95%+ by the US federal government and the home of the Nevada Test Site and Area 51) has always been super friendly to the US military (including its spying apparatus) and adjacent industries.

It's super gross.

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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by sneak on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:18PM (#27213929)
The eponymous RSA conference is run by RSA Security LLC, the same people who backdoored their products for the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security

κρυπτός means hidden or concealed, and I intend to die on this hill.

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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by wglb on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:02PM (#27214418)
My point is that Rivest Shamir Adleman are no longer with RSA.
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Re:Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Confe... by topranks on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:03PM (#27214432)
Well now that you put it like that…

…I guess NFTs are awesome after all. Where’s my credit card at…

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