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So subtlety and obfuscation to make good ideas sound bad (serpent), and bad ideas attractive (in the interest of performance and practicality).

So when any standards body recommends a particular cryptographic approach, we should ask why, and then why again.

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Currently they say performance and performance again. Sometimes they say nothing. Sometimes there is a good reason, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes they want to protect, sometimes they want to attack. That's the problem when you give one institution the job to do both.

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