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Schneier's Law comes to mind "Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break." https://
by a1a 11y ago
Schneier's Law comes to mind
"Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law...
- kleer001 11y agoOh, that's what that is! I had found a similar thing making my own puzzles, "It's easy to make a puzzle you can't solve, but it's hard to make a puzzle that's fun." Well, that' not entirely the same thing, but they overlap I guess.
- derefr 11y agoI would compare it to a writer's inability to spot typos in something they wrote themselves. Probably, if the same algorithm was written by someone else, they could tear it apart easily.
- lectrick 11y agoIt seems related to Dunning-Kruger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect