[Cryptography] best practices considered bad term

[Peter Gutmann]

Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:

>Sure.  But consider the same discussion about the National Electrical Code.
>It's a bunch of rules - no justifications or arguments, mind you, just rules.

I was curious to see how it compared to our code, and went out to grab a copy.
Dear God, it's a 128MB document!  Supposedly (since I didn't download it) 924
pages long.

And it allows wire nuts for connecting electrical cables.

Peter.