[baybal2]

No, this is nonsense.

> Remember, IT security doesn't have to be absolute.

The field of applied cryptography is absolutely reliant on near physical unbreakability of its algorithms, or it doesn't work at all. (you need n-times the life time of the universe to have a working bruteforce, and as much overwhelming mathematical proof of non-applicability of non-bruteforce approaches as possible.)

And it was actually found to be extremely hard to make crypto algos which are only "slightly" unreliable. Either they are a complete mathematical iron wall, or their deemed weakness is too glaring to be hidden.

[lallysingh]

That's the wrong point. Key distribution is the weak point in many (most? any?) crypto systems (and analogously, SSL certs), and that's where you have a trade-off between super-high security (opengpg ring of trust) and decent security (lets encrypt).