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Plenty of algorithms require a lot of background knowledge to understand. Should we ban crypto algorithms because they require hundreds of lines of comments exp
by shmageggy 6y ago
Plenty of algorithms require a lot of background knowledge to understand. Should we ban crypto algorithms because they require hundreds of lines of comments explaining elliptic curves? Of course not, we just assume people can read the papers.
- detaro 6y ago> There would have to be an awfully good reason to use it, and here there really isn't. Crypto primitives generally come with very good reasons why we want to use them (and even among them, understandability at least of some aspects of them is highly valued). The GP comment specifically challenges that this trade-off is not the case here. "Should we ban crypto algorithms" is attacking an argument they haven't made.