On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:08:43PM -0800, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> > You are asking the wrong questions. Why are you trying to reverse-engineer
> > the AES implementation? Why not just use it via the EVP interface?
>
> My guess is that he's trying to understand an actual in-world AES
> implementation, instead of simply using something that he doesn't
> understand.
>
> Why are you trying to enforce the idea of cryptography as a black box,
> rather than something that people should learn about?
Because in amost all cases that's exactly the right advice.
The cryptography learning that is sufficient and desirable is from books
such as "Applied Cryptography" which cover protocols and algorithms
at a high level. Studying the implementation or creating ones own
implementation is for experts who don't need to ask questions, or ask
sufficiently interesting questions that it is clear they are experts.
--
Viktor.
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