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by FabHK 2304 days ago
> Could this be a positive change?

For cryptographic (and related) applications, it certainly seems standard engineering advice now to reduce choices and configurations to a minimum [1] (but apparently not 2 decades ago, when OpenSSL, OpenVPN, and GPG were initially released).

[1] pretty sure Bruce Schneider et al. recommended it in their 2010 book Cryptography Engineering.