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I think modern cryptography is basically unbreakable if used correctly, but there is still a lot of work to do re: developer ergonomics and avoiding footguns in implementations. This is much better than it used to be, thanks to things like libsodium, moving away from RSA, and newer protocols that de-emphasize cipher negotiation, but there is still more to do, even with “good” crypto primitives. For example, AES used perfectly is probably unbreakable but AES-GCM has ways to bite the unwary; ideally we should think about an even newer symmetric block cipher or increasing awareness of better AES modes without GCM’s drawbacks.



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