Timeline for How can we modify our close reason and help center texts to allow "some" coding questions?
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 16:27 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCrypto/status/907279465117622273 | ||
| Sep 11, 2017 at 13:10 | comment | added | Squeamish Ossifrage |
Compare ‘What code does GCC compile c == 0 into on powerpc64 systems with AIX ABI?’ and ‘Is there a danger that this isolated string comparison routine in C might leak secrets via a timing side channel?’. The first one is obviously just a programming question. The second one, although clearly a C-related question, is something that essentially only crypto people are likely to have a good handle on, and is clearly about cryptography.
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 12:57 | answer | added | SEJPM | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 12:26 | comment | added | SEJPM | Personally I feel like the line should be the same as it always has been(?): Questions about side-channels and their mitigations are on-topic (after all only cryptographers care about this property and are experts on it). | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 12:04 | history | edited | e-sushiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified to handle fkraiem's comment ["Is clearly about C coding." How do you know? C is mentioned nowhere in the question.](https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/951/how-can-we-modify-our-close-reason-and-help-center-texts-to-allow-some-coding?noredirect=1#comment2735_951)
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 12:02 | comment | added | e-sushi Mod |
@fkraiem By bluntly looking at the code. The Q's function snippet seems to be an obvious example of either C (or maybe C++). The As also talk about “C”, so I'm not the only one interpreting things like that. Nevertheless, I'll edit this META Q to handle your How do you know? C is mentioned nowhere in the question. objection. Now… please note this nit-pick doesn't really matter in relation to this META Q&A, because even if it were a snippet in another coding language, it doesn't change the problem. Our system texts generalize it saying Programming questions… and cryptographic code.
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 11:56 | comment | added | fkraiem | "Is clearly about C coding." How do you know? C is mentioned nowhere in the question. | |
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