Yeah, you got it, the people at NIST and M$ are going to do better than you. 'Academic and useless' research huh? Go read DJB's website some day, it is far fro

Yeah, you got it, the people at NIST and M$ are going to do better than you. 'Academic and useless' research huh? Go read DJB's website some day, it is far from inapplicable. All the research that publicly disclosed HUGE holes in SSL? I think it's incredibly important. As to good security being of little value, maybe ask Sony and Adobe (and even NSA) if they wished they had better security.