Re:Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL e...
by tptacek on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @11:32AM
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You think you have a handle on how hard it is to get crypto right. Then you get a result like this. As an expert (not me; I'm not smart enough to say this) would put it: "if attacker data is mixed with defender data, none of the branches in the cryptosystem code can depend on the content".
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Re:Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL e...
by ZoFreX on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @11:56AM
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I think crypto is possibly the best example in all of software development and/or computer science of how dangerous "unknown unknowns" are, and how a little knowledge is a dangerous thing (although threads are a serious competitor for the latter trophy).
I've studied cryptography theory, and I've implemented various ciphers and attacks, and the more I learn the more certain I become that I would never, ever use any of my own crypto code in production.