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it's a little like someone invented a bad balanced binary tree It's a little like that culturally but it's almost entirely unlike that technically - a suboptim
by pvg 5y ago
it's a little like someone invented a bad balanced binary tree
It's a little like that culturally but it's almost entirely unlike that technically - a suboptimal data structure or algo tend to be just suboptimal-but-functional whereas bad cryptography and bad cryptography engineering often fail catastrophically. I know you know this, of course! But for one thing, someone used an iffy analogy on the internet, etc. For another, PGP people love misusing exactly this sort of analogy.
- tptacek 5y agoI'd use the analogy of "someone came up with C and then people came up with high level languages and even low-level languages that provided memory safety and..." but then we'd just be in another debate about how mired in the 1980s we should remain. :)
- 9387367 5y agoHave you written anything on proposed solutions? That would be an interesting read if you have.