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> Is there any truth to this? Yes, symmetric cryptography is a lot more straightforward and should be preferred where it is easy to use a shared secret. > Doe
by nicoburns 5y ago
> Is there any truth to this?
Yes, symmetric cryptography is a lot more straightforward and should be preferred where it is easy to use a shared secret.
> Doesn't basically all Internet traffic rely on the security of (correctly implemented) asymmetric cryptography?
It does. This would come under the "unless you absolutely need it" exception.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agonote that symmetric encryption is also really hard. it wasn't until 2010 or so that GCM mode came around and provided a system that is somewhat easy to implement without accidentally breaking everything.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoGCM is not without it's own pitfalls though, however.