Study found that developers (still) have a distinct lack of knowledge in understanding the fundamental concepts of cryptography - call for dedicated studies to investigate the usability of crypto APIs

• CryptoGotchas

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  A collection of common (interesting) cryptographic mistakes and learning resources.

• black

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  The uncompromising Python code formatter

  

OpenSSL would be an example of an unopinionated crypotgraphy library. It supports everything, including tons of stuff that's dangerous to use. For an example of an opinionated project outside of crypto, you could look at https://github.com/psf/black.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Top10

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  Official OWASP Top 10 Document Repository

  

Another example is the OWASP top 10, which put crypto problems as number 2 for their 2021 list. But in their description of the problem, they didn’t address the real problems that developers struggle with. This blew my mind away, so I put in my 2 cents to improve it, and they accepted it.

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