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Re:"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make s... by dlitz on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:03AM (#7558494)
> Maybe a big name in software could go and write a modern crypto library without all the cruft of OpenSSL but for now we have to deal with it.

https://xkcd.com/927/

There are very few competent FOSS crypto implementers, and unfortunately, they're spread very thinly. I'm not sure that having yet one another crypto library is going to be helpful unless we actively move our users to the new library and kill the old projects.

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Re:"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make s... by jafaku on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:26AM (#7558548)
Another irrelevant xkcd comment...
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Re:"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make s... by 1ris on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @07:28AM (#7558697)
Stop posting this xkcd. Seriously. It's not funny, it's not witty, it's old as hell and it does not make sense.
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