How is it different from advocating standard door locks? I'm not arguing that they should be used for securing bank vaults, all I'm saying is that they serve a useful purpose. If you're trying to say that I'm advocating…
FTA:"THAT ATTACK SOUNDS COMPLICATED! SURELY, YOU'RE BETTER OFF WITH CRYPTO THAN WITHOUT IT? There are three misconceptions embedded in that common objection, all of them grave..." I guess I shouldn't lock my car,…
Really? You can't concede that an implementation like this is better than rot13?
I simply disagree on practical terms. If I have the choice between the two, I am going to make my mom encrypt it with this library. That doesn't mean I feel perfectly safe and secure about it, but I feel better than not…
I would argue that rot13 is better than unencrypted, and that this is a step up from rot13. Sure, it's imperfect, but it's still better than nothing, and while I'm only a mediocre programmer, it appears to be…
Given the option between his mom sending it unencrypted, and encrypting it with an easy-to-use extension he set up for her, why not encrypt it? Surely it can't _hurt_ an already horrible situation?
That's a fair point. The idea that it could be used "for demonstration purposes only", though, seems to go too far in that direction. It seems like a useful library, just not for organizing a coup.
A comment from that post: "actually, i think an honest look at the security/privacy mechanisms provided by today’s tools precisely describes a case where ‘a little better than awful’ would be preferred. my mother…
Does anything qualify as 'real crypto'? Every implementation will always and forever have weaknesses. I don't have a problem with someone putting together a package that makes it easy to do crypto stronger than rot13 -…
How is it different from advocating standard door locks? I'm not arguing that they should be used for securing bank vaults, all I'm saying is that they serve a useful purpose. If you're trying to say that I'm advocating…
FTA:"THAT ATTACK SOUNDS COMPLICATED! SURELY, YOU'RE BETTER OFF WITH CRYPTO THAN WITHOUT IT? There are three misconceptions embedded in that common objection, all of them grave..." I guess I shouldn't lock my car,…
Really? You can't concede that an implementation like this is better than rot13?
I simply disagree on practical terms. If I have the choice between the two, I am going to make my mom encrypt it with this library. That doesn't mean I feel perfectly safe and secure about it, but I feel better than not…
I would argue that rot13 is better than unencrypted, and that this is a step up from rot13. Sure, it's imperfect, but it's still better than nothing, and while I'm only a mediocre programmer, it appears to be…
Given the option between his mom sending it unencrypted, and encrypting it with an easy-to-use extension he set up for her, why not encrypt it? Surely it can't _hurt_ an already horrible situation?
That's a fair point. The idea that it could be used "for demonstration purposes only", though, seems to go too far in that direction. It seems like a useful library, just not for organizing a coup.
A comment from that post: "actually, i think an honest look at the security/privacy mechanisms provided by today’s tools precisely describes a case where ‘a little better than awful’ would be preferred. my mother…
Does anything qualify as 'real crypto'? Every implementation will always and forever have weaknesses. I don't have a problem with someone putting together a package that makes it easy to do crypto stronger than rot13 -…