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by jiggy2011 5210 days ago
it's not necessarily about intelligence per se.

I think "smarter" in this context means more well read about the particular subject of crypto, although people good at that are likely to very intelligence all round too.

A different approach is not necessarily "less secure" it's just that it may have had less people banging on it trying to figure out ways to break it.