Arshad Noor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >In light of the recent discussions about experts in cryptography, I thought >I'd ask this forum to comment on the above author's statement: is this true? > >Do cryptography experts deliberately choose complexity over simplicity when >the latter might provide the same strength of protection?
It's true to some extent. For most crypto protocols, usability is job #8,107, right after "did we get the punctuation right in the footnotes for the third appendix?". Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]