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How I implemented my own crypto
Despite advice to the contrary, I have implemented my own crypto for serious use. Here's how.
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The design of Chacha20
Chacha20 is a secure, fast, and amazingly simple encryption algorithm. Let's take a look.
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Rolling Your Own Crypto
So you want to roll your own crypto. Well, be careful. Be very careful.
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Cofactor Explained: Clearing Elliptic Curves' dirty little secret
Efficient elliptic curves tend not to have a prime order. This discusses the problems this causes, and the solutions.
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Cryptography is not magic
Crypto is often treated like a black art only anointed experts can hope to wield safely. It's not. There are laws, and we can learn them.
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How Class-based Programming Sucks (2011)
Classes encourage pervasive mutable state, provide only an indirect support for closures, and do not support algebraic data types. I'd like to fix that.
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The Repeated Deaths of OOP (2015)
Object Oriented Programming died several times already. This time might be the last.
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