Cryptography Library Bell Curve

I KNOW MY CRYPTOGRAPHY. I CAN IMPLEMENT THESE ALGORITHMS BY MYSELF I’LL JUST USE A LIBRARY FOR THESE AUTH STUFF I’LL JUST USE A LIBRARY FOR THESE AUTH STUFF 34% 34% 14% 14% 0.1% 2% 2% 0.1% IQ score 55 70 85 100 115 130 145

A bell-curve IQ meme shows three people with different approaches to cryptography. The supposedly smartest person says they can implement cryptographic algorithms themselves, while both the least intelligent and moderately intelligent figures sensibly use a library for authentication. The joke is that trusting well-tested cryptography libraries is safer than writing security algorithms from scratch.

• @profunctor_io / 9070 2023-07-16