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One worrying thing about more encryption is that there is a sudden flurry of more bad encryption. Many products are trivially easy to break. (If I can break them any idiot can break them.)

The combinations[1] mean that many people are not protected, and do not know that they are not protected.

I think that I tend to avoid paranoia. But (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6132613) and the Debian rng bug (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...) are scary.

[1] Good products used carefully; good products used carelessly; bad products used carefully; bad products used carelessly.



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