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Why on Earth did the Cryptochat guy write his own cryptography functions in the first place? Couldn't he have used the Stanford crypto JS library?
by tstactplsignore 13y ago
Why on Earth did the Cryptochat guy write his own cryptography functions in the first place? Couldn't he have used the Stanford crypto JS library?
- oinksoft 13y agoThe inexperience and hubris of youth. We all have this to varying degrees, but those entirely new to the field for whom it is their first profession have it in spades (that's both a gift and a curse; great things are built by "naïve" trailblazers).
- tptacek 13y agoSJCL would have been helpful but still isn't a complete solution to the (exceptionally difficult, even for cryptography) problems they chose to tackle.