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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Smart Grid consortium rolled its own crypto, which is always, always a bad idea


When you make up your own crypto, it's only secure against people stupider than you, and there are lots of people smarter than the designers of the Open Smart Grid Protocol, who rolled their own (terrible) crypto rather than availing themselves of the numerous, excellent, free public cryptographic protocols. Read the rest

An interesting read via Boing Boing

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