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bangaladorelast Sunday at 11:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Memory safety is a very small concern for most cryptographic implementations (e.g Side Channel attacks). Rust solves essentially none of the other concerns.


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GTPyesterday at 8:06 PM

IIRC SHA3's reference implementation had an integer overflow in a counter that made finding collisions trivial, as it meant that some blocks of the input weren't considered.