[OPINION] Cryptography is too hard to understand, and that's the biggest problem with the field

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Signal

You're entirely correct. Part of the problem is the XKCD #927 "15 competing standards" issue. Most of the cryptography standards and common programs sucked for a very long time. Recently a few easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse programs and libraries have popped up, eg libsodium, age, minisign, KeePassXC, Bitwarden, Signal, and maybe Matrix if you stretch "easy-to-use" to the breaking point. But there are still a lot of crappy old standards, old programs, and old articles out there giving bad advice.

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Matrix.org

You're entirely correct. Part of the problem is the XKCD #927 "15 competing standards" issue. Most of the cryptography standards and common programs sucked for a very long time. Recently a few easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse programs and libraries have popped up, eg libsodium, age, minisign, KeePassXC, Bitwarden, Signal, and maybe Matrix if you stretch "easy-to-use" to the breaking point. But there are still a lot of crappy old standards, old programs, and old articles out there giving bad advice.

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KeePassXC

You're entirely correct. Part of the problem is the XKCD #927 "15 competing standards" issue. Most of the cryptography standards and common programs sucked for a very long time. Recently a few easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse programs and libraries have popped up, eg libsodium, age, minisign, KeePassXC, Bitwarden, Signal, and maybe Matrix if you stretch "easy-to-use" to the breaking point. But there are still a lot of crappy old standards, old programs, and old articles out there giving bad advice.

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bitwarden

You're entirely correct. Part of the problem is the XKCD #927 "15 competing standards" issue. Most of the cryptography standards and common programs sucked for a very long time. Recently a few easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse programs and libraries have popped up, eg libsodium, age, minisign, KeePassXC, Bitwarden, Signal, and maybe Matrix if you stretch "easy-to-use" to the breaking point. But there are still a lot of crappy old standards, old programs, and old articles out there giving bad advice.

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