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ebiester on June 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing mod...

I always thought the advice against "writing your own" spoke of the algorithm itself, not a library around the algorithm.

Locke1689 on June 10, 2012 [–]

Nope. Google Keyczar: standard algorithms; still screwed up. You should always use the highest level interface available.

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