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Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by paxys on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:50AM (#20817758)
Like I said, these real cryptographers aren't the ones going out and selling the software. Marketers use whatever terms their audience likes to hear.
Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by OskarS on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:56AM (#20817779)
If it's a three person SaaS start-up or whatever, there's no guarantee there's a dedicated marketing team. And even if there is, the engineers/managers don't know better than to tell their marketers "hey don't use that kind of language". And the marketers selling a security product don't know better?

Sure, it's entirely possible that the product itself is absolutely solid. It would be a bit silly to rule a product out on this basis alone. But when evaluating a product, it's fair to "do a double-take" when seeing language like this.