Dan McKinley’s take on this idea to choose “boring” has a bit more substance.
The nice thing about boringness (so constrained) is that the capabilities of these things are well understood. But more importantly, their failure modes are well understood.
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Love this:
All of this excitement is wonderful for crypto researchers. The only people suffering are the crypto users: continually forced to panic, vulnerable to attacks, uncertain what to do next. The crypto users’ fantasy is boring crypto: crypto that simply works, solidly resists attacks, never needs any upgrades. … This is an existential threat against future crypto research.
All of this excitement is wonderful for crypto researchers.
The only people suffering are the crypto users: continually forced to panic, vulnerable to attacks, uncertain what to do next.
The crypto users’ fantasy is boring crypto: crypto that simply works, solidly resists attacks, never needs any upgrades.
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This is an existential threat against future crypto research.
I’d rather be a wizard, doing highly difficult things with strange problems that only fellow wizards can understand.
Attacking boring problems with dumbed down code is no fun…
I think you are wildly misrepresenting the article. Did you read it at all? Your last paragraph is not at all what the article is about.
Dan McKinley’s take on this idea to choose “boring” has a bit more substance.
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Love this:
I’d rather be a wizard, doing highly difficult things with strange problems that only fellow wizards can understand.
Attacking boring problems with dumbed down code is no fun…
I think you are wildly misrepresenting the article. Did you read it at all? Your last paragraph is not at all what the article is about.