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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 18:51 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by mbanck
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Here's a smoking gun OpenSSL developer mailing list thread. Already linked above actually...

http://marc.info/?t=114651088900003&r=1&w=2

I don't know if anyone in that conversation "represents" OpenSSL in some sense, but there was
plenty of opportunity for anyone, even an interested bystander to interject "that is a
terrible idea" and no-one did.


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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 19:50 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Apparently that's a list for people developing apps *with* openssl, and 
the openssl devs don't all read it.

(If so, well done openssl: not only is your code an uncommented 
stylistically awful dog's dinner, your mailing lists also have 
ridiculously misleading names. There's a reason I encourage GnuTLS use 
over OpenSSL wherever possible, and it's not the license...)

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 19:57 UTC (Tue) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> Apparently that's a list for people developing apps *with* openssl, and the openssl devs don't all read it.

That's what Ben Laurie said, but the web page for OpenSSL support says different:

Discussions on development of the OpenSSL library. Not for application development questions!

So it would seem like a reasonable place to ask questions of that nature.

jake

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 20:16 UTC (Tue) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link]

The README distributed with openssl also says to submit patches to 
openssl-dev. And the FAQ on openssl.org ("How can I contact the OpenSSL 
developers?") says to look in the README.

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 0:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

OK, I'll go and be quiet in the corner for not fact-checking before 
burbling. Apologies.

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 23:54 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Well, don't feel so bad. The OpenSSL developers also didn't bother fact-checking either. ;)

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 15, 2008 4:20 UTC (Thu) by ajf (subscriber, #10844) [Link]

If a member of the OpenSSL team got it wrong, you can hardly blame yourself for believing him.

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