[HN Gopher] How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014) ___________________________________________________________________ How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014) Author : lucas-piske Score : 25 points Date : 2020-06-01 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (esl.cs.brown.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (esl.cs.brown.edu) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-01 23:00 UTC)