Comment by ziddoap
3 years ago
This is completely unrelated to the question being asked by the parent. They aren't asking about the average programmer. They are asking how many people in the world can truly 'prove' (to some reasonable degree) that the cryptography in use and the algorithms that are implementing that cryptography are 'secure' (to some reasonable degree).
Put another way, they are asking how many people in the world could verify that the algorithms used by libsodium, crypto_box, etc. are secure.
My point was that you don't need "thousands and thousands of people with the expertise to actually proove that the algorithms used today are really safe".
If the demand existed, there would be a lot more of those people.
Again, parent poster didn't say there was a need for thousands. They were asking how many there is a demand for. One? Ten? Hundred? That's the question that is being asked.