Re: ODT Today

Chris Bannister <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <20140420113813.GA6113@tal>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 02:33:52PM +1200, Robin Sheat wrote:
> Thomi Richards schreef op wo 16-04-2014 om 10:13 [+1200]:
> > presumably it has lots of people involved in the project.
> 
> I don't think that this is actually the case.
> 
> Also, it's worth noting that openssl does a lot more than just crypto.
> It does all the ASN.1 and X.509 stuff too. The heartbleed thing wasn't a
> crypto issue, it was a protocol implementation issue.
> 
> It's easy enough to write a bit of code that will do some crypto things.
> It's hard to deal with all the extra stuff (protocol handling, avoiding
> sidechannel attacks, avoiding standard attacks, etc.)

These links are interesting regarding code problems.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139715715931884&w=2

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140418063443

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