That's a dangerous statement on it's own. Making proper use of primitives is not at all a simple concept. Developers can absolutely undermine their systems with poor choices/mistakes.
Self promotion:
I wrote a blog up on a very high level screw up with type conversions to show just the very surface of how to screw up using solid crypto primitives. Time allowing I want to do more entries on topics within the crypto realm itself. IV reuse, etc.
That's a dangerous statement on it's own. Making proper use of primitives is not at all a simple concept. Developers can absolutely undermine their systems with poor choices/mistakes.
Self promotion: I wrote a blog up on a very high level screw up with type conversions to show just the very surface of how to screw up using solid crypto primitives. Time allowing I want to do more entries on topics within the crypto realm itself. IV reuse, etc.
https://pritact.com/blog/posts/crypto-mistakes-part-1.html