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by dahart 2443 days ago
To be fair, the main thing you learn doing the cryptopals challenge is to not write your own crypto.

I had a lesson in writing crypto once, when I made what I thought was a good enough secret mixing procedure to encode some data I wanted to email outside of a company that didn’t allow web access. (Long time ago, circa 2000). It all looked undecipherable and I sent most of the data before I discovered that strings of binary zero were leaking my secret key. Oops, pretty stupid.

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>To be fair, the main thing you learn doing the cryptopals challenge is to not write your own crypto.

D'oh! Good point though lol.