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If you've found a method to write software that is 100% bug-free, we're all ears.

• DoctorOW 1y ago
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  • cperciva 1y ago
    Rust would not have prevented that bug.
  • mkfs 1y ago
    IIRC, it was a nonce-not-used-only-once vulnerability, wasn't it? Wouldn't that be tricky to detect, even in Rust? Regardless, it's quite unfortunate to see Colin's nits picked in this manner, dredging up some mistake from almost 15 years ago (which he handled as responsibly as could be expected), given all of the work he's done on FreeBSD and for giving the world scrypt.
    • cperciva 1y ago
      giving the world scrypt Ironically that bug happened because of scrypt. Creating scrypt led me to refactor Tarsnap's crypto code, which is when the bug slipped in.
• 77pt77 1y ago
  There are bugs and then there are BUGS!