[Cryptography] MAybe he's Adam Back, maybe not

[Peter Gutmann]

Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> writes:

>I forget who it was -- one of the malware researchers guys, whom I follow on
>Twitter -- criticized the NYT article precisely on stylometry grounds, saying
>that his analysis of Adam Back's code is that Adam writes C++ like a C
>programmer who came to it late, and that the bitcoin code looks like an MFC
>programmer. This is precisely why I don't think it was Hal Finney, myself. To
>me, it looks nothing like Hal's usual code. And yet there are other
>knowledgeable people who have other opinions.

There's a comment I saw on some forum that laid out how two write a Satoshi-
reveal story, which went along the lines of:

1. Decide who you want Satoshi to be.

2. Take all the things that confirm this, which includes selectively
   interpreting anything that's ambiguous as confirmatory.

3. Studiously ignore anything that contradicts it.

4. Confidently announce that Mick Jagger is Satoshi (well he's British, isn't
   he?  It has to be him).

Peter.