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Rolling your own crypto: Everything you need to build AES from scratch
But you're approaching it from the wrong perspective: the idea isn't to use the crypto you implement yourself, the idea is to gain a better understanding of how the "magic" works. Of course my hand-rolled RSA/AES crypto is breakable, I know that because that's the default assumption.
It's akin to saying, "you're not allowed to build your own smoke detector because it will be unsafe!". Of course I know that, I want to understand the differences between a photoelectric and ionization smoke detector, how they work in practice, because reading some PDF schematics just doesn't cut it for me.
I honestly don't understand the line of reasoning of all this crypto gatekeeping.
Fun fact: while I was doing my crypto deep dive in 2015, my language of choice being Haskell, I found issues in several libraries, specifically around entropy, and even one library with modulo bias [1]. They were acknowledged and addressed. It was a super fun learning exercise, and seeing all these comments how it's supposedly almost illegal to do this misses the point of people exploring and learning in their own ways.
https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-crypto-numbers/commit/bceb54...
What are some alternatives?
ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.
keccak - Keccak hash functions
elocrypt - Generate easy-to-remember, hard-to-guess passwords
ecdsa - ECDSA stuff in Haskell
crypto-pubkey - DEPRECATED - use cryptonite - Cryptographic public key related algorithms in haskell (RSA,DSA,DH,ElGamal)
pairing - Optimised bilinear pairings over elliptic curves
cryptoconditions - Interledger Crypto-Conditions in Haskell
crypto-pubkey-types - Crypto Public Key algorithm generic types.
ripple - Implementation of Ripple client protocol in Haskell
NaCl
crypto-rng - Cryptographic random number generator.