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Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

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curl -v http://localhost:7335/plain http://localhost:7335/switch http://localhost:7335/plain
* About to connect() to localhost port 7335 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
> GET /plain HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: localhost:7335
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 18:13:44 GMT

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from twisted.web.server import Site
from twisted.web.http import HTTPChannel
from twisted.web.resource import Resource
from twisted.internet import reactor

class MyServer(Resource):
    isLeaf = True

    def render_GET(self, request):
        if request.uri == "/switch":