Maybe it's just me, perhaps because I didn't understand a damn word in this article[1], but I've never attempted to implement any sort of cryptographic function

Maybe it's just me, perhaps because I didn't understand a damn word in this article[1], but I've never attempted to implement any sort of cryptographic functionality myself. Occasionally I'll MD5 something for the sake of convenience, but it is never meant to secure anything. I don't know why so many programmers actually write their own code. It's silly. There are people way smarter than me in basically every programming domain that exists. I'd rather use their code. [1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig...