SilasBarta comments on Cryptanalysis as Epistemology? (paging cryptonerds) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 06 April 2011 10:52:05PM 2 points [-]

That's correct, except your last bullet (to be clearer, if this is what you meant) should say that you can strengthen the weak points by making the system less susceptible to human error.

Comment author: jwhendy 06 April 2011 10:55:52PM 2 points [-]

I was about to say no, but realize that I did write that incorrectly. To re-write, it would have redundantly said:

trying to strengthen the strong points is generally accomplished via a method that further increases susceptibility to human error (you have to implement "hand-done" encryption), whereas the encryption (the existing strong point) was fine as it was.

Does that help? I did have it wrong, thinking that implementing some form of hand-done encryption was an attempt to strengthen the weak points... but such activity would actually be in the "already-strong" category.

Comment author: SilasBarta 07 April 2011 01:22:23AM 0 points [-]

You have it correct now. :)