[ninegunpi]

Love cryptopals beyond my ability to articulate it well enough. This is monumental work many engineers owe their “cryptography 101-404” education to.

For a long while company I work for used Cryptopals as means to train/qualify interns before letting them touch serious practical stuff.

Not that knowing answers is a problem (there were public solutions, albeit clunky, before), but such careful explanation almost eliminates the fun in solving to some extent.

Gotta come up with our own take w/o public tour now, is anyone aware of any similar sets of challenges? CryptoHack is ok, but fairly deterministic one that removes “oh where do I go now” feeling, which is essential to bear with to learn to love the craft.

Edits: typos.

[tptacek]

This makes my day. Thank you so much for the kind words!