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Re: CCHmacInit - key?
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Re: CCHmacInit - key?


  • Subject: Re: CCHmacInit - key?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:31:52 -0700

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Eh, my rule of thumb is that if I can get it done in less than 48
> hours, it's not worth pulling in a 3rd party library. Which does error
> handling different, might have to be hacked around in different ways,
> and generally just feels ugly.

For anything that involves authentication or encryption, this is a
terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea.

This is a very good parable to keep in mind:
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/7/22/if-youre-typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing.html

--Kyle Sluder
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