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Keeping with the metaphor, the solution to the situation is to start a medical school, not to encourage people to attempt surgery without any training, eh?
by carapace 4y ago
Keeping with the metaphor, the solution to the situation is to start a medical school, not to encourage people to attempt surgery without any training, eh?
- api 4y agoI agree. My criticism is that the majority of the cryptography community just turns up their nose and does neither. They just say "go away," and people are obviously not listening to that and are instead attempting amateur surgery. The solution is to provide better learning materials. BTW some people often say "just use libraries." The problem is that even the best designed cryptographic libraries are easy to misuse if you don't at least understand the basics of what those building blocks are doing. Imagine using a networking library without knowing what a TCP connection is or how it behaves. You don't need to understand the deep internals of TCP but you need to at least know the semantics and what the protocol does.
- gonehome 4y agoI agree with all of this and also experienced it first hand. It makes it harder to learn because instead of people sharing good info or places to learn they just repeat chants of why you shouldn’t learn it.