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That's not what this is about.

The scientific community cannot run a distribution with "unneeded" updates to libraries.

That goes for other organizations as well.

I think your analogy with restaurants is flawed. There's a reason a lot of newly started restaurants fail.

You most definitely need some form of experience from the restaurant business to succeed as a restaurant owner, unless you are really lucky. Your analogy make it seem as being a chef is the only job that exist in the restaurant business.

Sure, you can succeed without experience, but your chances to do so increases dramatically with experience.

Thanks for the explanation!

I agree, it is probably intentional, but I think it remains to be proven that it was malicious?

Maybe 40 bit was seen as sufficient at the time, but are there any engineering reasons to actually shorten the key intentionally, does it improve the transfer rate in any way?

I can't think of any, but I'm no expert, so maybe somebody else can chime in?

Yes, I honestly think you are screwed.