Colin Percival personal blog
Cryptography is a science, not engineering
If we were still in the 1990s, I would agree with Thomas. 1990s cryptography was full of holes, and the best you could hope for was to know how your tools were broken so you could try to work around their deficiencies. This was a time when DES and RC4 were widely used, despite having well-known flaws. This was a time…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jun 17, 2013 | Cryptography is a science, not engineering by cperciva | 249 | 94 |
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