[ajbt200128]

> Shamir Secret Sharing

> ChatGPT

please don't roll your own crypto, and PLEASE don't roll your own crypto from a LLM. They're useful for other kinds of programs, but crypto libraries need to be to spec, and heavily used and reviewed to not be actively harmful. Not sure ChatGPT can write constant time code :)

[halfmatthalfcat]

People always say this but how else are you going to learn? I doubt many of us who are "rolling our own crypto" are actually deploying it into mission critical contexts anyway.

[Arainach]

Asking an LLM to do something for you doesn't involve any learning at all.

[halfmatthalfcat]

I’m not talking about the LLM case, just the mantra of “don’t roll your own crypto” constantly. Comes off as unnecessarily gatekeepy.

[rsynnott]

I mean, by that, people don't generally mean, literally, "never write your own crypto". They just mean "on no account _use_ self-written crypto for anything".