[Cryptography] How to De-Bollocks Cryptography?

[Wendy M. Grossman]

On 12/08/2024 13:25, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Getting back to the churn comments in the Bollocks talk, security protocols
> are like builders' houses.  It's pretty much a cliche that a builder's house
> is never finished, but it's fact-based: Ask any builder you know if their
> house is actually completely finished and the answer is always some variant of
> "no" [0].  And it's the same with crypto protocols.  They're never finished,
> not because they can't be finished but because the designers and standards
> committees will, unless someone takes them outside and shoots them in order to
> freeze the design, will just keep tinkering with them forever.

In the case of crypto, though, isn't that also partly because unlike a 
house you have adversaries actively trying to expose vulnerabilities?

wg
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