NSA, DGSE, SVR, and MSS will probably be implementing attacks with it at least a decade before it’s even remotely disclosed.. FIPS 203/204/205 also won’t be much use if you’re still using EdDSA

I actually see this as a problem a lot of organizations have. After a controversial decision, people come out of the woodwork to criticize. Rather than accept criticism, the org dismisses it as brigading, bots, trolls, etc. Those things do happen, and it’s sometimes difficult to tell the real from the manufactured. To Torvalds’ credit, he did call out the legitimate people that were concerned, and responded to the concern.

Are you talking about those Boeing whistleblowers? US government is using mob methods indeed.

Yeah clearly anyone who criticized Torvalds stupid comments on this issue is a Russian troll /s

So much of any opensource project is the community – you can’t really have anonymous in a way that actually is a good defence against a nation state level of resources and still be open to expanding the community and building the trust.

So yeah I think this is probably the right move under the circumstances, nobody under the thumb of a dictator who is actively crushing the freedoms of his own people, the same freedom opensource rather requires should be let in – you can’t really trust ‘their’ contributions even if you do trust them as an individual having met at many conferences or something in the before times. Though as the USA looks like it might be on the way to having their own dictator…

You can tell russia is already riled up with the sheer number of astroturf trollfarm accounts that came out of the woodwork and flooded torvald’s inbox, the lkml, and the comment section every major linux outlet covering it (eg. phoronix). According to Torvalds they even had the gal to send him reversion patches directly.