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Re:Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentic... by batoure on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:55PM (#16161001)
>susceptible to implementation errors.

So just like anything else you might want to implement if you do it wrong its insecure.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentic... by tptacek on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:59PM (#16161049)
So really what everyone should do are PAKE schemes based on isogenies, because then we're all post-quantum secure, and, after all, it's only insecure if you do it wrong.
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