Cryptography and D

[Xinok via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 5 July 2014 at 19:33:31 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> I used to think that. A few years ago, I looked into OpenSSL, 
> noticed several horrors. Several of them mentioned here:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU

I watched the video just now and I agree, OpenSSL sounds 
horrible. However, the poor quality of it has nothing to do with 
being written in C.

However, a very important point comes up at 1:00:15 when a person 
asks about the implementation of the "mainstream" ciphers. It 
turns out the implementation of the cryptographic algorithms is 
well done and actually written by CRYPTOGRAPHERS. One of the 
developers admits its beyond their competency and they generally 
leave it alone.

So maybe its okay for us to implement APIs or protocols in D, but 
we should NOT be implementing our own crypto.