[Cryptography] When your security is too secure

[Christian Huitema]

On 11/24/2025 11:00 PM, Peter Gutmann via cryptography wrote:
> ...
> Many emergency-use-only systems are like that, they assume the user will be
> able to fly the thing blind, to carry out a complex operation they've never
> done before correctly the very first time while under stress.  There's some
> point between dealing with a fire alwarm (find an exit, get out) and
> overriding failsafes in an emergency where the ability of most humans to cope
> breaks down.

+1

See Air France Flight 447 for what happens in real life (or death) when 
the automatic pilot finds it cannot handle the plane, gives up and asks 
the crew to take control. 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447)

-- Christian Huitema