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According to this guy SkyNet is coming. Should people delegate encryption/decryption to hardware and software which was not 100% their own design?

Compare with the original formulation of Kerchoff's principle

Example answer (not a claim):

Consider homomorphic cryptography: a piece of hardware can perform computations on bits it doesn't know. Could some algorithm/protocol between a human and his computer be defined such that he can enter an encrypted form of his private key, and encrypted form of a hash he wants to sign and gets the encrypted result back, but then of course where "encrypted" is feasible pencil-and-paper cryptography. (hence not necessary to delegate)

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personally I think he's a crackpot, but still it's essentially the same reason banks have us use smartcards for electronic payments... – propaganda Jan 23 '12 at 23:46
I think a discussion on whether AI occurs is probably off topic here. As such, I'm going to close this question for now. – Antony Vennard Jan 24 '12 at 1:00
this is not about AI, its about the danger of delegating the cryptographic operation. – propaganda Jan 24 '12 at 1:02
Also, there is a simple answer to marginally crypto-related question in here: You Shall Not Design Your Own Crypto; ergo, you are bound to use a system which you did not design yourself. – Thomas Pornin Jan 24 '12 at 1:03
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Sorry, this needs a bit more edits to make it on-topic here. A discussion of "whom can we trust" is not on-topic here. – Paŭlo Ebermann♦ Jan 24 '12 at 18:36
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closed as off topic by poncho, Antony Vennard Jan 24 '12 at 1:00

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