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You are probably going to get it wrong, not because there's anything bad with you, but because standard crypto libraries are too fine grained. The primitives are too low level, and you have to assemble sequences of calls in the right order and be in the watch for unexpected side effects.

I could tell you how I have gotten it wrong in the past, but there is no guarantee that I won't get it wrong again in a different way. So, the audit idea has it's merits, but you really want not to rely on the Linus Law of eyeballs. That means knowledgeable auditors who charge actual money for their time.



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