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by devrandoom 425 days ago
> One could argue

How?

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From https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/99108#issue-1436673...:

> As evidenced by the recent SHA3 buffer overflow, cryptographic primitives are tricky to implement correctly. There might be issues with memory management, exceeding lengths, incorrect buffer management, or worse, incorrect implementations in corner cases.

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