I don't think it was rude. You make firm statements about it being broken and then never follow up. How do you expect people to react?
You don't say: maybe its broken, I dont understand how this could work, your paper is missing x..
You authoritatively and firmly state its broken. I have seen how you react on the forum when roles are reversed. I really don't see how you can consider what I wrote rude.
How can you release a white paper on one-time ring signatures hiding values, and then not address the fact that your design as presented allows duplicate signatures of the one-time key that can't be detected.
That is lack of respect for or awareness about people who expend their precious time to read your paper.
On top of that he was condescending before we got to the point of me stating that fact.
I honestly didn't fathom that he might have a solution for the one-time key (the "MG" sig) that he would not have published in his paper. Who would? You read a white paper expecting all the pivotal elements to be covered. That is the point of a white paper.
The signature he showed in his 0.1 paper was broken. Now he changes to an "MG" sig. Moving the goal posts as if white papers should be a ball kicking sport.
Bottom line is he should have taken the time to finish his white paper before announcing it on Reddit. I didn't go publishing my white papers in half-finished state, thus wasting the time of my readers.
The time of my readers gets wasted by all the bickering and explanation of bickering.
Any way, I understand your point that we just want to get to the truth as efficiently as possible. And I do accept that your comment was a reflection of your perspective wherein you thought I was attacking him. I was defending myself from his condescending and unwillingness to help me learn efficiently what he had invented. I asked him several times to tell me where in his paper he was associating the 'a' with the 'Pi' and I never did get a straight answer from him. I had to go back to his paper and clarify it. Why ask.
I think what we have here is a guy (Shen) who is better at math than at human interaction. And then myself getting more easily ticked off because I am so tired of everything (illness, bickering, wasting time, losing massive hours where I should have been producing income).
Frustration seems to run together at the same time.
Any way, I would like to efficiently understand the differences in our algorithms, but Shen will need to make the math more intelligible for people who don't have time to build the domain knowledge on the symbolism he is employing. Some english text can go a long way to explaining a few things and make it much, much easier for people to make the little leaps in symbolism to full understanding.
If he only wants a few math heads to understand it, then he can leave it as now. It is his choice of priorities and I will react accordingly. I don't have unlimited time.