Google Releases an Open Source Cryptography Toolkit

Aug 14, 2008, 12:34 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Dean)

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""Cryptography is easy to get wrong. Developers can often choose the wrong cipher mode, use obsolete algorithms, compose primitives in an unsafe manner, or fail to anticipate the need for key rotation. Keyczar abstracts some of these details by choosing safe defaults, automatically tagging outputs with key version information, and providing a simple interface.""

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