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I guess the advice to "not roll your own crypto" can be safely considered compromised and hostile, especially after it came out that the winning curves in some
by qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
I guess the advice to "not roll your own crypto" can be safely considered compromised and hostile, especially after it came out that the winning curves in some competitions were selected by the NSA.
Do roll your own crypto if you have nation state actors as potential attackers. Make life hard for them.
- kickling 4y agoThe point is that you probably make their life easier by rolling your own crypto.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoImagine a NSA Codebase, having to hold a million hacks for a million different moving targets, they would grind to a total halt. Implementation variety is defense by burdening the attacker with maintenance for a million little ecosystems.