https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1806.01926/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231576urn:hackerpapers:mention:1806.01926:18231576Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:00:05 GMT<p>You might want to read a bit through this 4 year old thread about Tribler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780313. Apart from the mountains of grant money and severly broken crypto (&quot;set aside &#x27;RSA without blinding&#x27;; this is RSA without padding.&quot;) which might or might not be fixed by now, I think the main point is that: &quot;Tribler has a very long history of making high profile claims and never being able to follow through with actually usable software&quot;. And it seems they&#x27;re doing it again, now even making clearly false claims. See this paper, published this summer…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1806.01926/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DC