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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by ballard on Sunday April 27, 2014 @10:29PM (#7657946)
Does "ultimatum" and "raft of complicated last-minute changes" not raise anyone else's tinfoil paranoia alarms?

Those commits should get significant scrutiny, because it sounds like US/CA govt were given an indirect opportunity to push whatever changes it wanted AND rushed code isn't necessarily the best either.

(Also I'm glad FIPS mode is dead in LibreSSL.)

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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by tragic on Monday April 28, 2014 @04:41AM (#7658866)
Hmmm... Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by bureaucracy. The feds love them some standards.
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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by SeanDav on Monday April 28, 2014 @05:05AM (#7658926)
Once upon a time I used to believe this. Post Snowden, I tend to believe the reverse.
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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by jsmeaton on Monday April 28, 2014 @03:31AM (#7658675)
I read that part as the approval process required X changes that the OpenSSL team had to implement themselves. I don't believe the approving party was asking the OpenSSL team to commit code they were supplying.
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