[Cryptography] Serious paranoia...

[Greg]

I sometimes see things long these lines, though not whole sites going down.

Ex: yesterday I posted to CFRG asking whether their NSA-employed co-chair might be using a fake name, and the list's website took (what seemed to me) much longer to have that email posted online than my previous ones. It was as though the email got held somewhere for a while, and then released.

That said, Joshua is quite right when he says that your paranoia might be perfectly "justified" in the sense that malicious activity is going on, *and* that it might simply be coincidence.

However, paranoia can be fun, so go nuts:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hijack-huge-chunks-of-internet-traffic-researchers-warn/

;-)

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On Dec 23, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do any of you guys find that web sites go down after you post a new crypto related idea to an email list?  When I posted to the TrueCrypt list it went down for over a day.  I just posted to the password-hashing.net list, and it's down right now.  This happened before when I posted to the old BitTorrent list.  The sites just go away for a while.  Also, my wife is mad at me.  She thinks my crypto posts are causing delays in her emails.  My emails seem to get delayed after I post dumb crypto ideas.  This whole site is down:
> 
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc
> 
> I posted my dumb ideas for key stretching there earlier today.  I'm sure it's junk, but when I make these kinds of posts with mostly junk and potentially a new idea or two, sites seem to just go away for a while.  The posts usually make it through eventually, though one whole thread on the TrueCrypt list seems to be no longer findable, unless you have a saved link to it.
> 
> Anyone else see anything like this?  Is it total paranoia?  It's kind of freaking me out.
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