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I have to disagree: OpenSSL shares the blunt of the blame. (Whilst saying that, it doesn’t help that both projects are under resourced.) The Debian maintainer c
by orra 5y ago
I have to disagree: OpenSSL shares the blunt of the blame. (Whilst saying that, it doesn’t help that both projects are under resourced.) The Debian maintainer contacted upstream about the underlying issue, but received no response. Nor did the patch break any tests.
We've also seen since then just how broken OpenSSL was generally, with Heartbleed. And why did OpenSSL have its own RNG that invoked undefined behaviour, when it could just read from /dev/random?
Moreover, in hindsight, we have a much better understanding of undefined behaviour than we used to. Undefined behaviour is not “occasionally the optimiser might bite you” but “sometimes you'll get (un)lucky in that it’ll appear to work. Don’t do it”.