Re: [Cfrg] Cryptographic meta-principles

Gé Weijers <ge@weijers.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 22:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Cryptographic meta-principles
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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Igoe, Kevin M. <kmigoe@nsa.gov> wrote:
> 2.       Needless complexity is the enemy of security.

Even if the complexity is unavoidable: it's _still_ the enemy of security.

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Gé