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The private emails you're referring to include:

* Requesting the crypto challenges and receiving some of them.

* Repeatedly asking me to talk to you privately, which, as you've acknowledged here in the least charitable way possible, I refuse to do. I respond to these requests simply and directly, without insult or explanation.

That's the extent of our correspondence.

As any reader of this thread can see, you and your work weren't "mentioned" on this thread. You're the manager of a project that competes with Whisper, and you chimed in on a thread about Whisper to ding them for something. I believed that ding was unfair and explained why. You then proceeded to --- if I may be permitted an uncharitable interpretation myself --- freak the hell out.

You should have just conceded the point (it turned out later in the thread that you were wrong to have brought it up). Instead, you relentlessly personalized it. Now you're unhappy with how that went for you. Maybe this can be a learning experience.

I was fine with the meta tangent we went off on earlier today, even though it didn't have that much to do with Whisper, because it did have something to do with forward secrecy, transcript consistency, and the relationship between protocols and their implementations. This, however has nothing to do with anything. The thread shows how this meta-tangent started: with me asking a technical question about your offering, and you giving a little speech about how bad a person I am.

We should probably wrap this up now.




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> You should have just conceded the point (it turned out later in the thread that you were wrong to have brought it up). Instead, you relentlessly personalized it. Now you're unhappy with how that went for you. Maybe this can be a learning experience.

My initial issue remains valid, and anyone who reads through the thread can see that you repeatedly attempted to change the focus to personalize this issue towards me. It's like I'm not allowed to offer any feedback, no matter how polite, constructive or valid, while you're around. Your doublethink is egregious.




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