I do not really have something to comment on the posting, but I think the headline is based on a false dichotomy. What we call cryptography spans both, since th

I do not really have something to comment on the posting, but I think the headline is based on a false dichotomy. What we call cryptography spans both, since the study of crypto primitives is clearly mathematics and the use of OpenSSL is very much engineering. (And designing secure systems is somewhere in the middle.)