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Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by mckiddy on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @05:47PM (#9656117)
Exactly, this will fail just as fast as a single cipher when your users inevitably use 'password123' for their password.
Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by mangeletti on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @05:54PM (#9656148)
This is like saying, "A self driving car is a bad idea, because the user might enter the bottom of the ocean as their destination.".
Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by tedunangst on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @06:28PM (#9656292)
This is like saying "adding triple redundant GPS to a self driving car is a bad idea because the GPS is the component least likely to cause you to end up at the bottom of the ocean."
Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by sdevlin on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @06:21PM (#9656260)
There's no a priori need for password-derived key material in a library like this. To require it unilaterally is to introduce a security risk, since people have proven to be poor sources of entropy.

I don't really understand the self-driving car analogy. A better analogy would probably be three cars hitched together.

Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by me2i81 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @06:14PM (#9656236)
If the user enters the bottom of the ocean as their destination, it would be bad for a self-driving car to take them there. "The user is an idiot and so we killed him" is not going to be such a great defense in court...
Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by mangeletti on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @09:40PM (#9656961)
In all seriousness, if a man puts a GLOCK 21 in his mouth and pulls the trigger, is it GLOCK that "killed him"?

If I take my car and intentionally drive into the ocean, I expect it to continue until the engine dies, and then I do shortly after. Why should machines start prohibiting me from doing stupid things, if I want to do them? I think Isaac Asimov wrote a parable about such a future.

Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by sdevlin on Thursday June 04, 2015 @01:50AM (#9657651)
None of the mistakes people make in crypto are intentional. We need better interfaces to help them not make those mistakes.
Re:TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining... by mckiddy on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @05:56PM (#9656159)
Except this also adds very little benefit. Sure, 3 ciphers might be better than one, but as the top comment said the cipher is already the strongest part of the entire process.