I'm just amazed that someone would go through all the effort to plan an attack of terror and not do a single web search to see if their inventive cryptography system has any notable issues.
I think people can do their own crypto as long as they are exceptionally prudent in doing their own homework.[1] He clearly wasn't.
el oh el.
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[1] The authors of RSA and AES aren't demigods that descended from mount Olympus; they are people that did their own crypto, but with the right amount of focus and caution. It's clearly possible for a competent person to invent their own. Just like someone could invent their own operating system or programming language. It's just rarely appropriate to do so for a single task.
I think people can do their own crypto as long as they are exceptionally prudent in doing their own homework.[1] He clearly wasn't.
el oh el.
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[1] The authors of RSA and AES aren't demigods that descended from mount Olympus; they are people that did their own crypto, but with the right amount of focus and caution. It's clearly possible for a competent person to invent their own. Just like someone could invent their own operating system or programming language. It's just rarely appropriate to do so for a single task.