i know little but i strongly suspect the artificialness of the birthday bound is specific to this situation. the bound shouldn't be there, but by using random n

i know little but i strongly suspect the artificialness of the birthday bound is specific to this situation. the bound shouldn't be there, but by using random numbers it is introduces - its 'artificial' because an idealised implementation would not suffer that problem. you are right though, excessive jargon is a massive blocker for anything not just because its unintelligible but also because of the 'elitism' social signal it sends... many unspectacular people can find holes in a cryptographic system - in many cases common sense or a little ingenuity is enough - but they will generally not know the term for their specific flavour of attack (attack is a term itself) or the surrounding terminology to describe it in the context of cryptography. in short, its not complicated, its obfuscated...