Amateurs Produce Amateur Cryptography

Posted by bob on May 12, 2015 9:34 AM EDT
Schneier on Security; By Bruce Schneier 		Mail this story
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Anyone can design a cipher that he himself cannot break. This is why you should uniformly distrust amateur cryptography, and why you should only use published algorithms that have withstood broad cryptanalysis. All cryptographers know this, but non-cryptographers do not. And this is why we repeatedly see bad amateur cryptography in fielded systems.

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