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by myrion 1226 days ago
It might make tradeoffs that make it unacceptable in other situations, particularly ones that are focused on being resource constrained in some way.

For example it could have low RAM usage, but become exponentially slower with message size, so it's fine for encrypting short messages only.

Or it could have a constant overhead somewhere that's fine for an IoT device that sends a report once a day, but not if you wanted to make thousands of connections per second.

Stuff like that, is my naive understanding.