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I shouldn't have to know about weather to fly an airplane.

I shouldn't have to know about gasoline to drive a car.

What's wrong with these statements?

The universe doesn't care that something "should" be easy.

You CAN fly a plane without knowing about the weather, because the pilot does the flying for you. All you want is to get from point A to point B via plane.

A crypto library is the pilot. A crypto library that allows you to use insecure settings is a pilot who crashes the plane into a mountain because you asked him to.

I think the analogous entity for "pilot" would be "application". The library is analogous to the airplane, and airplane will fly into a mountain when you ask it to.

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