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Randomness is a trusted shield against smarter and better equipped adversaries
The NIST Recommended Cipher you have been using may be compromised!
Right then LifeBoat Ciphers kick-in. They rely on huge amount of Randomness, and are proven secure!
Think-out-of-the-Box Cryptography. What a simple idea: you mix the ciphertext with many decoy ciphertexts so that together the cipher stream decrypts to many plaintexts, and it is impossible for the attacker to distinguish between the true plaintext message and the many decoys.
NIST ciphers are more elegant, to be sure, but they all yield to a mathematician smarter than expected. The Lifeboats don't.
Lifeboats-on-the-Titanic cryptography runs on randomness, not on complexity. Complexity can be negotiated by smarts, randomness cannot. Randomness is messy but it does what it is supposed to, and with mathematical proof.
So stay with NIST, it is cleaner, but keep the "Lifeboat" hanging there in case you need it.
As a CISO, your great fear is mental inertia, your greatest asset is alertness and curiosity. The threat before you is innovative -- you should be too. Invest 30 minutes in learning how to protect yourself from a surprise NIST failure. Gideon@BitMint.com
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