Gregory's Server@sophieschmieg congratulations on your field having achieved enough fame to receive crank theories, heh
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 @sophieschmieg @ireneista if you've got enough tolerance to brush them off, the cryptography cranks are an amazing comedy source. I especially like the "revolutionary encryption algorithm" ones who have no formal training and put together some swiss cheese for public review  @astraleureka @ireneista there is lots of fun to be had breaking their implementations. My favorite one so far is this one: @sophieschmieg @ireneista heck yes this is EXACTLY the type I was thinking of. 10/10 @astraleureka @sophieschmieg @ireneista We get those in compression too. Every now and then some eager amateur introduces their miraculous new compression algorithm with impressive claims and no clear explanation of how it works. I've made a few myself. Mine do work, they just don't work well enough to be any improvement on existing methods. |
@ireneista technically Bas got this one. But I do get my fair share of cranks, and have been for a while, cryptography just has a very high crank density.