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There's even bogus "But it's encrypted" crypto in the new software I'm working with in my day job this year 2025. There are so many other "must fix" user visibl
by tialaramex 2y ago
There's even bogus "But it's encrypted" crypto in the new software I'm working with in my day job this year 2025. There are so many other "must fix" user visible problems that I actually forgot to mention "Also the cryptography is nonsense, either fix it or remove it" on the one hour review meeting last week, but I should add that.
I've made one of these goofs myself when I was much younger (32 byte tokens, attacker can snap them into two 16-byte values, replace either half from another token and that "works" meaning the attacker can take "Becky is an Admin" and "Jimmy is a Customer" glue "y is an Admin" to "Jimm" and make "Jimmy is an Admin") which got caught by someone more experienced before it shipped to end users, but yeah, don't do that.