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That a bug in one implementation does not imply a bug in the protocol.

• crystaln 13y ago
  I didn't say there was a bug in the protocol. There is a bug in the REFERENCE implementation, which is used by almost every exchange. And one criticism of MtGox was that they used a custom version of the reference implementation, and should have used the standard one. You can't have it both ways.
  • eliasmacpherson 13y ago
    Is there a reference implementation for SSH? I don't think so. By your standards then SSH is broken, which is false. I don't want to have it both ways. I think if you are running a money service that you should not rely on variables that were known to be malleable since 2011. There's even a wiki page about it, on a site the guy owned, since Jan 2013. Either they run someone elses code and made sure it worked, or run their own code and made sure it worked - and by worked I meant worked the way they needed it to, not the way they expected it to.
    • crystaln 13y ago
      As I said, they are definitely incompetent. However, it's quite clear that this is a bug, and it could have affected them, and they could be telling the truth, contrary to what the original article says.