Two speeds

Submitted by Joshy Orndorff on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 16:34

I basically have two operating speeds:
* Laying around being lazy doing nothing
* Brilliant ideas flowing so fast I can barely write them all down
No middle ground apparently.

Don't roll your own crypto

Submitted by Joshy Orndorff on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 00:37

The spirit is in the right place, but the message is not. Most people aren't sufficiently skilled to write and evaluate cryptographic primitives. That's certainly true. It's true of me, and there are a lot of noobs noobier than me out there of whom it is also true. People like us should not be writing our own primitives and putting them into production use.

But someone has to write the crypto! And the only way to learn is to try fail and reevaluate. So while I'm fine with "don't roll your own crypto" being a catchy reminder, my real advice is as follows.

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