[Cryptography] How to De-Bollocks Cryptography?

[Peter Gutmann]

Wendy M. Grossman <wendyg at pelicancrossing.net> writes:

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

With the house analogy it's similar, you have the environment constantly
trying to expose problems.  The difference is that if a security person owned
the house and the roof leaked a bit then instead of fixing the leak they'd
demolish the house and build a new one with whatever style of roof was in
fashion at that point, along with replacing a lot of the perfectly-OK stuff
that was in the original house with new gee-whiz stuff that's barely been
tested but must be better because it's new.

Peter.