What's wrong with this analogy?
Nobody in the cryptography pages on Wikipedia has the faintest idea what a trapdoor is or what a metaphor ispic.twitter.com/CPBDXRJWGl
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Well, just to start with, why not use the analogy of an actual trapdoor
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Isn't that an analogy, not a metaphor?
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I think describing a function as a "trapdoor" is a metaphor, whereas likening trapdoor functions to padlocks and keys is a horrible analogy
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