You ship a feature. Tests pass. Deployment goes smooth. Everyone's happy. Meanwhile, somewhere in your codebase, you're storing passwords with MD5. And someone, right now, is cracking them in under a second. That's the thing about Cryptographic Failures — they don't throw errors. They don't break your CI pipeline. They sit quietly in production until the day they don't. What Are Cryptographic Failures? OWASP ranks them #2 on the Top 10 list of most critical web application vulnerabilities. Not #7. Not #5. Number two. And the definition is deceptively simple: sensitive data is not protected by cryptography — or it's protected badly. That second part is where most developers get caught. It's not that they skipped encryption entirely. It's that they used the wrong algorithm, mismanaged their keys, or trusted a default that hasn't been safe since 2004. The result is the same either way: unauthorized access to data that was supposed to be locked. Why Does This Keep Happening?…