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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jul 1 20:29:20 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: arshad.noor@strongauth.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <486A819A.4000300@strongauth.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:05:42 +1200
Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com> writes:
>In light of the recent discussions about experts in cryptography, I thought
>I'd ask this forum to comment on the above author's statement: is this true?
>
>Do cryptography experts deliberately choose complexity over simplicity when
>the latter might provide the same strength of protection?
It's true to some extent. For most crypto protocols, usability is job #8,107,
right after "did we get the punctuation right in the footnotes for the third
appendix?".
Peter.
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