It&#x27;s not complicated. Most of the world&#x27;s really bad amateur crypto is written as a vanity exercise in saving the world. It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s uncertainty about whether people have launched grievously, dangerously broken crypto software; they have. And those people do tend to be #1&#x27;s.<p>Also, please do not try to represent my problem with the EFF&#x27;s scorecard as somehow idiosyncratic. There probably aren&#x27;t <i>too</i> many crypto engineers who don&#x27;t share my opinion of it. You&#x27;re probably giving me more credit than I deserve when you call it &quot;my war&quot;.