[tptacek]

Yes. It's past time for this concept to be put to rest. It started out as a joke and has taken on a life of its own; moreoever, it has looped back over onto itself, to the point where it's advocating a sort of DIY SOTA vibe that is going to get people hurt --- the opposite of what the joke was going for originally.

[mwcampbell]

I suspect that cperciva, who wrote the first "cryptographic right answers" post in 2009 and doesn't seem to have intended it as a joke, would disagree.

[tptacek]

Yes, and I wrote the next two. The joke was about Colin's post --- "these 'right answers' are neither common best practices nor what cryptographic hipsters are advocating". The joke has always been "these should be titled Colin's Right Answers or Thomas' Right Answers [eek]" or whatever.

Nobody has deliberately included bad advice. That's not what I'm saying.