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by czinck 4079 days ago
Which is part of what's meant. Don't create your own crpyto algorithm and don't write your own implementations of existing algorithms. There are so many gotchas that it would take a lot of effort to get something that's less buggy even than the much-maligned OpenSSL. Someone (I don't remember who) said that even typing the letters "RSA" is too close to rolling your own crypto.