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tef

congratulations to everyone who repeated "don't write your own crypto", you have inadvertently trained hundreds of chatbots to refuse a rather dangerous request

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Scott Michaud

@tef Now we just need to publish lots of posts that repeat "Don't program at all" in various phrasings.

Jeff Forcier

@tef b..but my grandma really really needs me to write some of my own crypto!

João Baptista

@tef When someone says something like this, I always think about what will happen when the original maintainers of the current cryptography libraries retire or die. *Someone* will have to maintain them, and with no skills to maintain crypto libraries, we might have problems.

tef

@JoaoBapt alas, professionals do not heed warnings for beginners

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