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This feels like it flies in the face of the usual advice for modern crypto. Don't try to be clever. Don't roll your own system. But it sounds like a novel langu
by orblivion 9y ago
This feels like it flies in the face of the usual advice for modern crypto. Don't try to be clever. Don't roll your own system. But it sounds like a novel language, and a lack of context, could actually cause headaches for those coming after you.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoWith the possible exception of OTP, modern (sic) crypto was essentially nascent at that time (Enigma), there was no option but to roll your own. Your advice comes from a corpus of 70 years of collective experience which did not exist 70 years ago.
- orblivion 9y agoI think when I said this I was assuming that the implication was that it would be useful even today. I understand that crypto was much different back then.
- mattkrause 9y agoKeep in mind that it was the early 1940s—-there weren’t many options other than rolling your own. The code talkers were literally 100x faster than the available machines and much more “portable” and robust. It also wasn’t just haphazardly deployed like a DIY crypto system inside some app might be. There were tests and working groups and stuff like that.