> In that case you could borrow the aphorism about running an
> insurgency/revolution ("the best weapons to use are the ones that take
> the same ammunition as the government troops") and use whatever tools
> are most likely to be used by intended adopters.yep. which is why we posted here asking for potential adopters to give us some feedback. our guess is that there is a non-trivial population of folk large enough to get whatever tools are needed. for them, the cost of the tooling is a trivial part of the cost of incorporating cryptech designs into their product. but fredrik makes a good argument for there being a long tail of less financially well-off folk, from small labs to the hacker community. and they are our siblings and are communities we want to support. strong crypto should be as widely spread as possible. but, if we can not get the puppy out the door due to our own engineering constraints, it makes little difference. which is where your > the primary goal should be to use whatever tools the developers feel > most comfortable with. If others decide to use it, it'll be because > it's a good, effective design, not because it was created with > WombatCAD 2000. resonantes. randy _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@cryptech.is https://lists.cryptech.is/listinfo/tech
