Hello World

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> Heh.  I once worked on a C++ project that included its own crypo code
> (i.e. custom implementations of things like AES and SHA-1).  The person
> who wrote some particular bit of the code had decided that deliberately
> obfuscating the function and variable names would somehow make it more
> secure, so that's what he did.
>
> The mind boggles.  At so many levels.

Level 0: Why implement your own crypto?!?

ChrisA