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Kerckhoff's principle applies. Nowadays, all the good encryption software is open source anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle https:/

• ebg13 7y ago
  > Kerckhoff's principle applies That's true and yet unhelpful because all software has errors, some obvious, some not.
  • mratsim 7y ago
    Cryptographic software is at the very least audited, at the very best formally verified (i.e. proven bug-free). And now you can use proof assistants that are used to prove mathematical formulas to generate crypto code: https://github.com/mit-plv/fiat-crypto https://github.com/mit-plv/fiat-crypto