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Re: Book on cryptography for programmers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dmolnar)
Fri Aug 11 16:13:21 2000
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: dmolnar <dmolnar@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: Michael Paul Johnson <mpj@ebible.org>, cryptography@c2.net
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John R Levine wrote:
> * Don't try to invent a new crypto systems. Amateurs can't write secure
> crypto systems, as often as not professionals can't either.
By the way, I would extend this to include "don't try to write your
own new crypto code, unless you really, really have to."
Also something on how to find and use test vectors.
