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deeebugtoday at 3:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Looks like it's that, plus vibe coding (in areas like crypto!) - https://kerkour.com/stdx


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tialaramextoday at 4:32 PM

The whole "There are test vectors so we know it's correct" is a strong sign that this isn't actually safe to use and that indeed the people who built it (to the extent people actually did build it) have no idea what they're doing.

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FiloSottiletoday at 3:35 PM

Uh, yeah, this is not the writing of someone with the experience to maintain a cryptography toolkit: https://kerkour.com/nist-cryptography-backdoor

(I’m more worried about judgement calls than implementation correctness, it’s not about AI.)

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