[nextw33k]

"you should never use your own crypto code"

The sentiment behind that is to keep out those that don't know how to code. If everybody followed that advice there wouldn't be crypto code.

If you have the ability to create good code and are confident you can understand the maths of cryptography then by all means contribute to the community. If the past year has taught us anything it's that the crypto community needs more good engineers.

[creshal]

The sentiment should be "write your own code, but don't use it without independent audit". There's another recent discussion about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/418nyl/write_crypto...

[rhinoceraptor]

People write their own toy kernels or malloc()s all the time, and there's never the assumption that they would actually try to use them for real, and the security implications are just as real there as for toy crypto.