Though neither side said this, I feel its important to point out: If you’re learning crypto SOLEY by coding attacks, you ARE NOT actually learning crypto. A g

Though neither side said this, I feel its important to point out: If you’re learning crypto SOLEY by coding attacks, you ARE NOT actually learning crypto. A good chunk of bad cryptography was done by people who thought "eh, I can't see any attack against this" -- or read Applied Cryptography and thought that was enough. Hopefully the Matasano crypto challenges don't have the same effect.