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Re:Never use a dependency that you could replace with an aft... by dogma1138 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:47PM (#24126890)
With all the technical debt associated with it, which is the problem basing your project on a dependency that would allow you to easily scale and add features is a huge benefit.

This is like saying you should roll your own crypto because you only need to do a very limited sub set of crypto operations so why use something like NaCl or Tink.

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Re:Never use a dependency that you could replace with an aft... by samus on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:21AM (#24132293)
Encryption is a terrible edge case. If you are forced to half-ass encryption, you should seriously question the project requirements. Bad encryption can be worse than none at all. Things won't end well if data security is treated as a detail.
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