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Don’t Use Low-Level Crypto Libraries

Understand the risks of using low-level cryptographic libraries and the common pitfalls when configuring AES encryption. Learn why high-level libraries are safer and how to avoid mistakes like ECB mode misuse to maintain secure encryption practices.

Hopefully, we’re now in agreement that we shouldn’t roll our own crypto. It might seem that all we need to do is grab a low-level encryption library and start using it’s AES encryption and decryption functions. After all, that’s not “rolling our own crypto.”

Low-level libraries are easy to misconfigure

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