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What's the "standard fee" for violating the constitution?
Re:Certificate Verification Issue - GnuTLS on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @12:26AM (#7345471)
I find the language "how to mitigate the attack" completely offensive.

How about "how to verify a certificate?" Or better "how to write C code"

This is a scandal. Stop.

All SSL distros are now suspect

In crypto, the "crypto" is the hard part. But now in the space of two weeks we see that folks maintaining the crypto in C can't handle return values.As an industry we have accepted that these libraries are the standard plumbing of security for many years.And they are obviously based on standards.Some other standards are continuous and automated testing to ensure broken code does not make it to...

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