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Official Java account tweets cryptographically insecure AES encryption demo code (twitter.com)
33 points by TrevorStepnikkk 2305 days ago
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It's kind of funny how often people end up using ECB. (Or not using a nonce with stream ciphers.) It's like so obvious that that can't work when you think about it, but I guess most people just don't think about it in the first place.

In this case however, the low quality was easy to identify for everyone. Just go to the website:

>Happy learning and keep coding !!!.

A space in front of three exclamation marks followed by a period. Only psychopaths would be able to write something like that.

I totally agree. I would have expected some kind of vetting before content gets posted by an official account with +450k followers.