On 7/7/26, 11:58 PM, "Peter Gutmann" <[email protected]> wrote:
* Which is what's made it so secure. It obeys Grigg's Law, "there is only one * mode and that is secure". ... One person, working by themselves, has come up with a secure- * A-to-B mechanism that's better than anything the IETF has ever produced. Collaboration is hard and security often involves trade-offs. Especially when national(istic) forces come into play. These days it’s not enough to have an X.509 OID to be a country (as some wag once wrote[1]), you often have to have a a cipher too. That one person also benefits from not having to work with an installed base that inherits a legacy of crypto patents, little public review and analysis of algorithms, and export and import controls. Chalking it all up to an argument against crypto agility seems a little one-sided [1] https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt
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