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Most projects' APIs are designed with a philosophy of "make easy things easy,
and make hard things possible". One of the perils of writing cryptographic code
-is that secure code looks just like insecure code, and it's results are almost
+is that secure code looks just like insecure code, and its results are almost
always indistinguishable. As a result ``cryptography`` has, as a design
philosophy: "make it hard to do insecure things". Here are a few strategies for
API design which should be both followed, and should inspire other API choices: