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lvh
on Dec 20, 2016
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Rolling Your Own Crypto
I'm not sure I understand the rationale. Automated attacks can't beat real crypto either -- so why even bother rolling your own? (And automated attacks can certainly see non-cryptographic encodings like Base64, Base32, ROT13...)
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