Cisco : Cryptography Rarely Fails Because of the Math

Cisco :  Cryptography Rarely Fails Because of the Math

By Publicnow
Publication Date: 2026-10-14 17:26:00

In 26 years of building security and cryptographic services at Cisco, I’ve worked through a long list of defects in protocols and systems. Only a small minority of the cryptographic failures I’ve seen came from someone breaking the algorithm. Far more often, systems fail in the gap between fix available and fix deployed.
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