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I love these two lines from Shneier's earlier article, the one he links to at the end: "The 'best cryptographers around' break a lot of ciphers. The academic l

I love these two lines from Shneier's earlier article, the one he links to at the end: "The 'best cryptographers around' break a lot of ciphers. The academic literature is littered with the carcasses of ciphers broken by their analyses."

a1a 13y ago
Indeed. Related advice, also from Schneier: "Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard."