Cryptographic Issues in Matrix’s Rust Library Vodozemac - Dhole Moments

Wow. Cryptographic engineering has a very dangerous Dunning Kruger confidence curve. Smart enough to get happy path working, but not enough to cover critical cases. I forget if you said it or someone else, but getting cryptography wrong can quite literally kill people if it’s assumed to work as expected but is broken in subtle ways. Thinking of the direction for Matrix, it’s hard to believe low hanging fruit was simply missed.