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You could make a much simpler and more powerful statement:

  All the code you've ever written is broken.
Since cryptographic code is harder than most code and getting simple stuff right is impossible there is an extremely small chance that you'd get crypto code right 100%.

With most code the consequences are not all that bad, with cryptographic code the consequences can be disastrous.



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