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		hgtr on Sept 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography What kind of previous experience is needed for that job? Do you need to be a specialist crypto developer?

eismcc on Sept 2, 2018 [–]

For the crypto itself, yes. These colleagues had specialized at university and studied afterwards. For the plumbing portions, it’s mostly excruciatingly detail oriented bit manipulation combined with standard windows kernel / core development. I also read a LOT of RFCs.

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