Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator
> It’s a weird thing about academics — they like to write papers and “share ideas”, but it’s very hard to get source code from them.<p>I suppose at least part of the reason, especially for things like crypto and statistics, is that they don't want to get bogged down in plausibly-correct claims of fatal flaws, and be perhaps repeatedly (over years hence) put in a defensive position of having to prove the criticism <i>in</i>correct or have everyone assume the work was wrong?<p>I can sort of understand that. The same's true for the papers themselves of course, but I can see it being more annoying for code. ('But it's never going to actually be in that state', etc.)