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by User23 907 days ago
> it gave almost no guidance about how to actually use them in the real world

This is funny, because an old buddy of mine who did a brief stint at the NSA let slip that they almost never compromise the algorithm, it's virtually always the implementation where the weakness lies.

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The obligatory xlcd reference https://xkcd.com/538/.

Always the easiest path, defeat the implementation.