Every additional thing that has to happen during a "secure" exchange is another place where an exploit can happen. The more code there is, the harder it is to audit, the more chances there are that the author(s) made a mistake, the more attack surface there is for a hacker, etc.
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Yeah... the more software development I do, the more I gripe about seemingly simple things being made hopelessly complicated.
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Security Through Simplicity
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