12 points BisratMelak 2 hours ago 5 comments
coppercrisp62 1 hour ago | parent
Curious where you landed on password hashing, since zero deps in Go means you either pull x/crypto for bcrypt/argon2 or hand roll scrypt from stdlib. I've been down that road and stdlib pbkdf2 wasn't there until recently.
LVB 1 hour ago | parent
Nothing to see here IMO. A large amount of code piled together in a month.
The push here is “zero deps”, though at that point I might as well have Claude do it like they’ve presumable done. FWIW I’m quite ok with bringing in a well-tested/maintained dep. Hand-rolling everything down to crypto primitives like is done here isn’t an advantage.
dwroberts 1 hour ago | parent
Also, a quickly vibecoded project doing something important to security, to be used by other applications, seems like a perfect way to drop a malicious backdoor (and maybe even provides the author plausible deniability when it’s found)