Encryption, my friend, there’s a lot riding on your shoulders. There have been decades’ worth of debate as to whether you are too strong, or too weak. Entire nations think you are so powerful that they restrict your import, your export and your use. No less than the NSA has been accused of trying to influence your standards, presumably to break you. Indeed, you have been broken, and secrets have been lost. It’s true you always bounce back, but for how long?

Let’s talk about Wi-Fi. Remember WEP? It turned out anybody could crack the code in minutes. Then we got WPA, which failed to withstand a 60-second attack. So, we moved on to WPA2. I don’t need to tell you about the KRACK attack, which affected nearly all Wi-Fi devices. KRACKers were able to read communications and, perhaps even worse, inject malicious packets into traffic. As a separate matter, man-in-the-middle campaigns have successfully used fake digital certificates to impersonate encrypted websites and steal information. I guess you shouldn’t be blamed for that though.