Well the context of the article is at the time recent, buggy implmentations of ssl and other security protocols which were at the time unproven security protoco

Well the context of the article is at the time recent, buggy implmentations of ssl and other security protocols which were at the time unproven security protocols, and government entities providing black-box crypto with either explicit or occult back doors. If by high-trust you mean I'm going to trust a government entity's protocol or implmentation of a security protocol which doesn't provide decent forward secrecy or non-repudiation, well then, even in a high-trust environment that sounds like a bad idea.