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.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 incorrect or have everyone assume the work was wrong?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.)