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by _8j50 1154 days ago
I agree that when you have a choice it should be done as you said. I am not even a developer and I've been in situations where aes-gcm or poly1305 (or ed25519 and other popular curves) were availabe. Sometimes it is b.s. internal politics, other times it is third parties that can "only" use a certain set of tools or dependencies and it is either come up with something custom or lose the deal/contract.