Writing good cryptographic code, and even understanding cryptography to a good level, is no harder or special than other kinds of programming. Personally, I find UI programming, writing an app, or even figuring out basic CSS more daunting.
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Some closer stories from my personal experience: at Amazon we hire a lot of people from college into a general-purpose SDE1 role. We've had many such people join one of our crypto-focused teams and absolutely succeed.
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If you go through the commits of s2n, you'll find a bunch! And they are absolute *experts* now. It's amazing to watch them dissect things. This stuff is totally doable. It's not magic, forbidden knowledge only for the special few. It's for US!
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My own story is littered with being garbage at math. I was a C student in high-school. Same when we did math at university. But getting into Cryptography really changed that. It unlocked a lot of the "why" of math for me, it gave it all a sudden purpose that was super motivating.
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... I ended up *teaching* university level math, and I still teach a bit today. I still make mistakes, my numeracy isn't great, and I'm not going to be a mathematician any time soon, but it's gratifying to at least be competent. Thanks to Cryptography!
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Final tweet: Don't be discouraged by the intimidating appearance, find a team and spend a few hours a week on it, and get stuck in. If you do it now, it's really really good timing, and you can make LOTS of money. Also: we're hiring.
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