How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) by whatshisface on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:11PM (#13203292)

Possibly. If your rot13 takes longer to rotate a Z than it does and A, then it will leak your Zs through the AES. Similarly, you might accidentally write your own rot13 heartbleed.

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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) by ENGNR on Saturday December 17, 2016 @09:39PM (#13204016)

So you just need to add an extra layer on another computer surely, or else I could MITM SSL by encrypting/unencrypting it

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