[Cryptography] best practices considered bad term

[Bill Frantz]

On 2/8/15 at 3:57 AM, iang at iang.org (ianG) wrote:

>No, it wasn't security for the users, it was reliability and 
>usability.  And it was only apparent if you took a longer view, 
>like a year or three in comparison.

I have always maintained that security and reliability are 
opposite sides of the same coin. If you don't have reliability, 
you have security flaws. If you don't have security, then 
attackers can destroy your reliability.

Cheers - Bill

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