# The security tag

The seems rather redundant - isn't almost all cryptography related to security?

• Looks pretty useless to me – CodesInChaos Jul 26 '12 at 18:56
• I don't think queuing edits(as a low rep user) just to remove this tag is a good idea. – CodesInChaos Jul 27 '12 at 9:40
• @CodesInChaos OK. – Inkbug Jul 27 '12 at 10:15
• @Inkbug: In general, when you are editing a post (question or answer), try to fix as much issues as possible at once. If someone has to look at your edit to approve it, make it count. – Paŭlo Ebermann Jul 27 '12 at 14:53
• @PaŭloEbermann Ok. Thanks for the tip! – Inkbug Jul 29 '12 at 6:41

In a less wide sense, one often speaks of a $n$-bit security of some primitive or protocol, meaning that an attacker needs at least $2^n$ steps of work to break it. It could be useful this way (and in the past, I left out these usages when removing the tag from other questions), but it would need a good tag wiki for this, as well as some discipline (or regular supervision) to make sure it is not used when not appropriate.