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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.


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