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Does "ultimatum" and "raft of complicated last-minute changes" not raise anyone else's tinfoil paranoia alarms? Those commits should get significant scrutiny,
by ballard 13y ago
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.)
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- jsmeaton 13y agoI 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.
- tragic 13y agoHmmm... Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by bureaucracy. The feds love them some standards.
- SeanDav 13y agoOnce upon a time I used to believe this. Post Snowden, I tend to believe the reverse.