[Cialug] July Meeting: ComSec Strategies

Nicolai nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
Fri Jul 19 16:46:48 CDT 2013


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:28:11AM -0500, Morris Dovey wrote:
> On 7/18/13 12:10 AM, Scott Yates wrote:
> >I would urge you to be very careful with custom encryption.  Coding strong
> >encryption is EXTREMELY challenging to do without leaving holes or weakness
> >in the implementation.
> 
> Agreed. Fun tho. :o)

That's the way to look at it!  Writing crypto code is super fun, but for
all but a small number of living people, we're just writing toy ciphers.

Nicolai


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