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> requiring me to get me a master's degree in cyber security No! You should get that degree if you want to design your own scheme like you're trying to do now.
by ohazi 6y ago
> requiring me to get me a master's degree in cyber security
No! You should get that degree if you want to design your own scheme like you're trying to do now. If you don't want to bother, then just use the standard algorithms like everybody else!
> Your attitude is like lambasting someone who writes a quick and dirty python script that gets the job done because it's full of vulnerabilities and wasn't written perfectly in Rust and doesn't scale to 10 million connections. So what.
Write all the disposable python you want. "Don't roll your own crypto" only applies to cryptography.
- umvi 6y ago> No! You should get that degree if you want to design your own scheme like you're trying to do now. If you don't want to bother, then just use the standard algorithms like everybody else! It's not that easy. It's not like there's a universal library that is super easy and safe to use and prevents you from messing up. Crypto algorithms are like Legos or plumbing. All the parts are there, but it's a big scattered mess and it's up to you to glue them together safely, avoid obsolete pieces, etc. And that requires education and experience, many hours of it. Even in my crank scheme I was doing the same - gluing together different crypto algorithms in a suboptimal way.
- ohazi 6y agoThat's... Okay, yeah, that's fair. The libraries are pretty awful.