Comment by josh2600
3 years ago
I'm just saying, you're speaking as an expert in the field. Let's say you don't want to do design any of that stuff but you need some parts of those systems for the thing you're building. How do you decide what you can or can't trust without having deep knowledge of the subject matter?
Maybe that's it, maybe you can't?
How do you know that Noise is a good design and that a cipher cascade isn't? Whatever (correctly) told you that, apply it to other cryptographic problems.
I see. So maybe what you’re really saying is “why are you writing a system that has cryptographic primitives if you’re not a cryptographer/mathematician?”
No, that is not at all what I am saying.
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