[Cryptography] How to De-Bollocks Cryptography?

[Wendy M. Grossman]

On 12/08/2024 15:03, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but what I was trying to get at was that the weather doesn't have 
intelligence. When you patch the house, the wind doesn't then examine 
the patch and come up with a scheme for bypassing or breaking it.

But agree that one of the worst things about the computer industry is 
the insistence that no problem being encountered now has ever been found 
and solved before and that newer must be better.

wg
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