That was a very interesting read. It's also somewhat of its time - there has definitely been a turn towards systems which are less full of footguns in the inte

That was a very interesting read. It's also somewhat of its time - there has definitely been a turn towards systems which are less full of footguns in the intervening years. TLS 1.3 for example, which heavily pared down the available ciphersuites. We're still using AES all over the place though!