Thanks! Yes, this is great advice. security should not be an afterthought and it certainly has not been here. Also, I did not post this on HN, so those were not

Thanks! Yes, this is great advice. security should not be an afterthought and it certainly has not been here. Also, I did not post this on HN, so those were not my words. There are some aspects to security that I took that extend to the code. It is written using design by contract, where if a contract fails, the program quits immediately. Security should extend beyond the protocol. As I mentioned previously, long term I won't be using a handrolled protocol, which has obvious problems. This software is alpha and I hope to migrate before 1.0