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Rocky Heckman who is a security specialist as Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rockyh/ summed it up in the best way I have heard so far.

"Don’t write your own Crypto algorithms unless you have a Doctorate in Cryptography."



I think Thomas Ptacek takes it a necessary step further: "Don't implement crypto." Even if you're using a good algorithm, your implementation of it will have holes. The trouble is that the normal exploratory programming technique that gets a MVP up and running doesn't find security holes.




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