[Uta] A quote from the cryptography list on security in practice.

[Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]>]

Reposted without asking permission, but I don't think Phillip Hallam-Baker will mind:

   ...  if security is going to be any use to people it has to be easy enough that a
   60+ year old grandmother who left school before the Internet arrived can use it
   because she is the US Secretary of State.

   We have tried the maximalist approach to security for 30 years and it has been a
   complete failure. We have one widely deployed Internet security protocol and it
   is limited to the transport layer.

It is with this in mind, that we can understand how some pragmatic security
concessions can ultimately gain more security for more users than they appear
to forgo at first glance.

-- 
	Viktor.