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Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Posted Feb 12, 2021 1:13 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo by logang
Parent article: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

> > It seems straight-forward if you ignore the incredibly large attack surface involved every time you run "apt update".

(I meant "apt upgrade)

> That's an odd statement. I do that multiple times a week on more than a dozen machines.

Then pause once and try to gauge about how many persons and lines of code you trust every time you install or upgrade a few dozens packages. Maybe pip and cargo won't look that bad after all.


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