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Someone I know once told me crypto is funny because all you have to do is compromise the OS's socket implementation.

Is that before or after you write a gui interface using visual basic to track an IP address? :/

To be fair, this is a guy who does hardened, embedded RTOSes. In the normal world implementation, of course crypto matters.

Sometimes I need to take off my "all software sucks and I hate everything" hat before posting :-/

How so? The application does the encryption, not the OS.