> 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 alg

> 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.