I'll take "more secure" over short and readable any day.

Kudos · on Sept 12, 2012

In some cases short and readable ends up as "more secure" by virtue of being implemented correctly.

ErrantX · on Sept 12, 2012

Or in this case; short and readable is more secure because attack vectors, like generation of salts, are wrapped inside the new API.

regularfry · on Sept 13, 2012

    There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it
    so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to 
    make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
        - C. A. R. Hoare