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wbond on Dec 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rolling Your Own Crypto

I'm not going lower level – in fact, I'm not even dealing with a communication protocol. Certificates are also used for document and executable signing.

guitarbill on Dec 21, 2016 [–]

Yeah, fair enough - it was more of a general assertion that it's easy to forget that high-level solutions exist. It's NIH.

Does using certs still suck though? I get that it's a hard problem, but cert revocation and distribution, that's really hard even for OSes.

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