Is the prevailing opinion of cryptographers that "cryptographic agility" is a folly of developers?https://simplysecure.org/blog/developers-people-too …
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Replying to @dguido
Cryptographic Agility appears to increase complexity, complicate analysis, and involve users where a single cipher suite would do.
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Replying to @dguido
depends entirely on the time horizon you're building for
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@bradarkin I saw some backlash about agility from djb. Preference was to deprecate the protocol over swap ciphers.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
you can see that general preference in most of his code, eg NaCl. I guess you can call me an "agility skeptic."
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I guess DNSCurve would have been a better example.
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Anyway, only point was maybe not rushing to agility in all situations since it doesn't come "free" in reality.
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