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Why is encryption so hard?

So I see a lot of posts on HN that alude to difficulties when developing apps with encrypted comms. Do most languages not already have encrypt/decrypt libraries to leverage. E.g I would expect to be able to find a public-private (RSA) implementation in most languages, where I could do somthing like:

String encryptedMessage = RSAEncryptor.encrypt(publicKey, message)

Is this not the case? Do such libs have bugs?

52 points retube 13 years ago 36 comments

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