Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”

Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by seedie on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:45AM (#20817733)

Probably it is because I'm not a native speaker but I'm not seeing any difference between Military-Grade or Industry Standard Encryption. Can anyone please clarify what the benefit is? Are these well defined terms and does Industry Standard Encryption imply that it's continually updated?

> MD5 is thoroughly useless as a hashing algorithm[...] but it was used by the military and banks in the past, so it's technically "Military-Grade"

If it was used by the Industry in the past wouldn't the same hold true for Industry Standard Encryption?

Edit: quote formatting

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Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by 74ls00 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:04AM (#20817806)

They’re all just marketing terms and have no technical meaning. The author just wants the marketing terminology to better reflect the technical reality of all applications using the same technologies at any given time.

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Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by OJFord on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:05AM (#20817811)

I suppose you can try to be clear that you maintain a standard as it evolves, that doesn't really work with 'grade' (but admittedly it doesn't stop you saying 'military standard'...)

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