[Cryptography] best practices considered bad term

[Bill Frantz]

On 2/2/15 at 6:44 AM, pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) wrote:

>So it's certainly a rain dance, but I wouldn't say it's for avoiding security,
>it's for avoiding liability, a la "no-one ever got fired for buying IBM".

This statement encapsulates the real value of "best practices". 
If you follow them, you won't get fired.

Cheers - Bill

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