I... sort of have mixed feelings on this. I agree that the article could do far more to explain what's good, both in content (talking about why these things ar

I... sort of have mixed feelings on this. I agree that the article could do far more to explain what's good, both in content (talking about why these things are bad) and in style (defining all terms immediately). But holy shit, the MSDN article is bad. It's so hideously bad that I think there's nontrivial social value in bashing it extensively to discourage people from writing docs like this without getting them sanity-checked. In short, I think this article is largely useless to people reading guides and trying to avoid the pitfalls of the original source, but is aimed at people writing crypto guides who have no business doing so.