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by userbinator 2164 days ago
The platform-specific stuff is not where most of the bugs have been found, so your assertion is misguided. Portability is one of the greatest strengths "keeping crypto freely accessible for all" and the fact that e.g. with a suitable C89 compiler I can create a binary that will run on an original 8088 IBM PC and perform SHA256 or AES should not be underestimated.

To a first approximation, crypto is pure maths. The rest can be taken care of by the standard C library.

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Not only that, but the testing on oddball platforms can be a good way to reveal latent bugs.