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ajross on Nov 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: All the crypto code you've ever written is probabl...

Right. To paraphrase: it turns out that for the vast majority of cases the "security holes" in the system aren't due to broken crypto. So what's the practical difference?

tptacek on Nov 13, 2012 [–]

No! In the majority of cases where people use crypto, they do in fact have trivially exploitable crypto vulnerabilities.

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