Re: [Algorithms] Message signature in token ring

[Chris H. <ch...@d6...>]

Tony's original point was not to roll your own crypto.  That point is 
totally valid, and I agree with him in that you'd have to either be insane, 
stupid, or a crypto expert to roll your own if you cared at all about 
security.  Some people may have preferences for OSS and some may have 
preferences for OS APIs.  That's not the important part of the point, in my 
opinion (and Tony's), although there is a discussion there to be had 
between open minded engineers that does not degenerate into name calling 
and insinuation (which we obviously didn't have :).  He was not bashing 
game programmers at all, at least by my reading of his mails.

Trying to write your own crypto code by asking beginner questions on this 
list is insane or stupid or both, unless you're just messing around to 
learn, and even then you should be reading one of the zillions of well 
written books and websites on the topic, not posting "how do I implement a 
secure login procedure" here.

Hopefully that point comes through all the silly noise.  I doubt anybody 
reasonably experienced would disagree with it.

Chris