[HN Gopher] How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014)
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       How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014)
        
       Author : lucas-piske
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2020-06-01 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | zeroxfe wrote:
       | I've been working through the Cryptopals Crypto challenges
       | (https://cryptopals.com) over the last month-and-a-half (almost
       | done with Set 6), and they've been extremely educational.
       | 
       | Attacks that I thought were just "theoretical" turned out to be
       | very practical (sometimes even quite simple.) I've always known
       | that one shouldn't roll their own crypto because there's so many
       | ways to shoot yourself -- but holy hell, executing some of these
       | attacks really drive the point through.
       | 
       | (Also, I've learned more number theory in the last few weeks than
       | in my whole life!)
       | 
       | If anyone's interested, I've been solving them in Go (which
       | turned out to be surprisingly convenient for many reasons), and
       | my solutions (so far) are here:
       | https://github.com/0xfe/cryptopals.
        
         | lucas-piske wrote:
         | Thanks for sharing. I will definitely check this out.
        
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