"In cryptography, then, it’s not just for idle academic reasons that you’d like a publicly-available trail of research papers and source code, open to criticism and improvement by anyone, that takes you all the way from the presumed hardness of an underlying mathematical problem to the security of your system under whichever class of attacks is relevant to you."<p>Being open to criticism and improvement does not necessarily improve anything unless the people doing the review have the same level of knowledge as the people trying to leave exploitable flaws.