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> Why is there no usable haskell SSL library?

> Why is there no usable haskell SSL library? Probably because of the broad agreement among crypto people that reinventing core crypto wheels is almost always a bad idea. On top of that, the intersection between the set of people who are qualified to write that crypto code and the set of people who know Haskell well enough to do a good job of it is probably the empty set.

Posted by mightybyte on Jul 13, 2015, 6:55 AM

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> Why is there no usable haskell SSL library?

mightybyteJul 13, 2015, 6:55 AM

> Why is there no usable haskell SSL library? Probably because of the broad agreement among crypto people that reinventing core crypto wheels is almost always a bad idea. On top of that, the intersection between the set of people who are qualified to write that crypto code and the set of people who know Haskell well enough to do a good job of it is probably the empty set.

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