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Not when computer security is concerned.

• klyrs 2y ago
  In all things, moderation. Security must be evaluated as a collection of tradeoffs -- privacy, usability, efficiency, etc. must be considered. For example, you might suspect that the NSA has a better sieve than the public, and conclude that your RSA key needs to be a full terabyte*. We know that this isn't perfect, of course, but going much beyond that key length will prevent your recipient from decrypting the message in their lifetime. * runtime estimates were not performed to arrive at this large and largely irrelevant number
• saagarjha 2y ago
  Security is a tradeoff. Perfect security is not using a computer.
  • jeanlucas 2y ago
    Security is a constant tradeoff, and trading off time for perfectionism is not a good one to take.