Hypotheses in Secure Protocol Design   Consider this to be my 7
Laws of Secure Protocol Design. They are not really laws because
I'm not yet dead, but I have to get them down before that
otherwise I'll miss out.  They continue to evolve, both their
content and their number. Today, the number N is 7, which also
is the magical number of Financial Cryptography. This be
coincidence, not science, and expect it to change, as science
once again takes to the sword and slaughters the dragons and
myths of the dark ages of security.  These hypotheses are
opinionated, yet they come of having read, experienced and been
battered by many secure protocols, and built a few as well.
After a while -- after repeated abuses at the hands of other
peoples ideas -- one perceives patterns out of pain, and those
patterns tend to predict things: success or failure, stalling or
booming, security or smoke.     1. H1 - The One True Cipher
Suite.   2. H2 - Divide and Conquer. Commentary: 1, 2,   3. H3 -
There is Only One Mode and it is Sec