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nickovs / curve25519.py
Created June 29, 2021 20:39
A pure Python implementation of Curve25519
"""A pure Python implementation of Curve25519
This module supports both a low-level interface through curve25519(base_point, secret)
and curve25519_base(secret) that take 32-byte blocks of data as inputs and a higher
level interface using the X25519PrivateKey and X25519PublicKey classes that are
compatible with the classes in cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.x25519 with
the same names.
"""
# By Nicko van Someren, 2021. This code is released into the public domain.

Normies just don't care about privacy

If you're a privacy enthusiast, you probably clicked a link to this post thinking it's going to vindicate you; that it's going to prove how you've been right all along, and "normies just don't care about privacy", despite your best efforts to make them care. That it's going to show how you're smarter, because you understand the threats to privacy and how to fight them.

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So, first of all, let's dispense with the "normie" term. It's a pejorative term, a name to call someone when they don't have your exact set of skills and interests, a term to use when you want to imply that someone is clueless or otherwise below you. There's no good reason to use it, and it suggests that you're looking down on them. Just call them "people", like everybody else and like yourself - you don't need to turn them into a group of "others" to begin with.

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