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The things you mention are causes of catastrophic security failures, not mitigations. 'Algorithm agility' (and related) is the source downgrade attacks, software that relies on cryptography tends to get broken computationally only after years of warnings about unsafe algorithms that are ignored, more often than not, due to over-reliance on standards both formal and de-facto.


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