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Pavel, showing that he was wrong once in the past doesn't invalidate his multiple points he made now (or in the past).

Hey, but now he knows that you are planning to do the opposite of what he says, presumably he will start giving you good advice, just to trick you.

The reason that people are so cynical about your custom solution is that being completely and utterly cynical about custom solutions, unless the architects can defend the solution rigorously, is the only sane approach in cryptography.

No, that's not at all what I said, but I despair of explaining the distinctions to someone who thinks AES-IGE+SHA1 and unpadded RSA is a sound design.