Re:Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto
by rurban on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:31PM
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I don't think it's a matter of open vs closed source, it's more a matter how many maintainers and contributors the projects has.
As most bigger projects (>3 maintainers) show, the more contributors the worse is the quality of the code, and logically the rate of bugs is higher.
Closed source projects typically have the best number of maintainers: 1-2. With open source it could easily degrade into a minefield, like with openssl, apache, linux, gnome, python, perl, ruby, node, ...
As most bigger projects (>3 maintainers) show, the more contributors the worse is the quality of the code, and logically the rate of bugs is higher.
Closed source projects typically have the best number of maintainers: 1-2. With open source it could easily degrade into a minefield, like with openssl, apache, linux, gnome, python, perl, ruby, node, ...