>Is this elitist culture in cryptography. It's elitist in the same way quantum physics, string theory and molecular biology are. A hard science with lot's of m

>Is this elitist culture in cryptography. It's elitist in the same way quantum physics, string theory and molecular biology are. A hard science with lot's of moving parts not everyone can manage. >But there is so much extra "insider knowledge" or "tribal knowledge" that isn't obvious to non-cryptographers, that you need, for it to be secure. Misuse-resistant cryptography is an open research problem. Claiming it's "tribal knowledge" makes it seem nefarious. Academics are not always good teachers, and collecting all the lessons from all papers you read into a book, is time away from doing more research that advances your career. >Such knowledge is often (if not always) not documented. It's in obscure forums, papers and blog posts like this one. You can pay for the papers, and you can pay for the school to learn to understand those 'obscure' papers. Or you can hire someone who has done that. If you're a developer expected to implement algorithms of theoretical physics, you're not complaining about the papers being obscure, you're hiring a physicist with double-major in computer science. There's way too much frustration towards cryptographers, and way too little frustration towards bad hiring practices, and incorrectly assigned work.