> If you naïvely apply bad encryption before good you may weaken the entire system The strength of the system can be viewed from multiple angles. From a pract

> If you naïvely apply bad encryption before good you may weaken the entire system The strength of the system can be viewed from multiple angles. From a practical angle, applying one kind of commercial encryption on top of another type of commercial encryption turns it into a technically weaker, but unique cryptosystem. And uniqueness has value if you're just a single fish in a big pond. For instance, if one single An0m customer had applied a caesar cypher to their communications, the cops might have skipped over him due to the unknown cost of putting dedicated crypto effort into one person in a massive dragnet.