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In my experience, this is how developers see crypto: RSA: "I learned that as an undergrad. It's just multiplication, I'll use GMP!" ECC: "Whoa what the
by CiPHPerCoder 11y ago
In my experience, this is how developers see crypto:
RSA: "I learned that as an undergrad. It's just multiplication, I'll use GMP!"
ECC: "Whoa what the hell is this? I better use a library."
These are the same developers who ask on StackOverflow how to decrypt MD5, of course.
- eru 11y ago> These are the same developers who ask on StackOverflow how to decrypt MD5, of course. Rainbow tables. Duh!
- CiPHPerCoder 11y agoThat's not decryption.
- eru 11y agoOf course, not. (Though I wonder if you can make a pedantic argument, that if the domain of your one-way function is suitably restricted (eg to passwords humans actually come up with) they do become bijective.)