Bad Crypto 101: Spotting Red Flags
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜🤍🤍🤍 This post is heavily inspired by Simson Garfinkel’s A Field Guide to Spotting Bad Cryptography (2005) – link below – and aims to give you a quick, lightweight overview of things to look out for when you’re trying to assess the security of cryptography in the wild, without dissecting an algorithm. If …