Strength in Complexity?

[Peter Gutmann]

Arshad Noor <arshad.noor at 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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