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> or 2) write my own DTLS implementation in Java, and virtually guarantee I'd get something wrong and break it cryptographically.

Java doesn't have constant time guarantees, so for at least the cryptographic part you have to call to a non-Java library, ideally one which implements the cryptographic primitives in assembly (unfortunately, even C doesn't have constant time guarantees, though you can get close by using vector intrinsics).



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