[Cryptography] Crypto Books, 2017

[John Young]

David Kahn's Codebreakers towers above the cheat sheets.

Bear:

>It seems sort of like the difference between a book on architecture
>and a book that gives the architectural details and some design
>insights of a dozen buildings already constructed.

Salient. Study of failures in architecture is essential to understand
the profession and its diminishing regulation, due the over abundance
of promotional design, development, finance, starchitects.

Expect failures in the recent surge of supertalls, in NYC and elsewhere.
Engineering peer reviews are shallow, occupant safe egress diminished,
building safety codes neglected in favor of unlimited zoning -- and
maximization of profits.

No need to draw parallels with booming crypto and comsec, as ever
following the lead of natsec. Fortutiously, old standby comsec as well
as supertall crypto is already crumbling at foundation, shoddy construction,
assurance prevarication for sales, exculpation of the profession by blaming
its duplicitous standards: everybody shades, patches proliferate, nobody
fully discloses, peer review ridiculous as open source vetting.