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The comment you replied to had absolutely nothing to do with encryption or DRM.

C being low level means you're forced to do many tedious and complicated things manually. This makes the code you write prone to errors which (in the worst case) can be exploited by attackers to run arbitrary code on your system.

... but I'm sure you're already well aware of this which leaves me wondering why you wrote what you did.



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