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Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by headmelted on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:02AM (#20817799)
To be fair to the marketing zombies, I kind of see why it would be easier to sell "Military-grade" rather than "Standard".

To our definition of "Standard" this means up to scratch and implemented correctly to specification - to the normal folk this is probably interpreted as "regular" or "basic-tier".

I'm a very important and aspirational small shipping/accountancy/dog-walking firm. I don't want that potato-tier regular encryption - I deserve super-duper fabtastic encryption like the banks have.

Maybe we should call it Fabtastic Encryption 12.0 (people like numbers after their software).

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Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by jabl on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:13AM (#20817848)
Double ROT-13 is for the plebs who can't afford better encryption. We do QUADRUPLE ROT-13! Take that, crackers!
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Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” by RandomBacon on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:01AM (#20818577)
Those are puny numbers. Don't talk to me until you're using ROT-26, or better yet, ROT-52.
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