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I think it's perfectly normal to be curious about a field and want to know more without necessarily wanting to charge off and do it yourself.
by davidw 9y ago
I think it's perfectly normal to be curious about a field and want to know more without necessarily wanting to charge off and do it yourself.
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- Kalium 9y agoYou're right! That's perfectly normal and extremely common. People are skittish about this in the realm of cryptography because the costs of getting it wrong can be very high. Further, programmers have a culture where experimenting by writing something yourself is perfectly reasonable and extremely common. When these two meet in the context of crypto, I know just enough to get worried that someone's going to get overconfident from a primer and do something they believe to be very clever. History has a nasty tendency to validate fear this as well-intentioned clever people do things that they believe are good enough.