[Cryptography] OPENSSL FREAK

[Ryan Carboni]

>
> > To me "throw the baby out with the bathwater every 5 years" is a total
> > nonstarter. We have huge business incentives to support old customers,
> and
> > one of our biggest tools for doing that is working around protocol design
> > flaws using cipher agility.
>
> Would you comment, please, on whether this means you are
> accumulating complexity and, if so, at what rate?  For
> comparison, ten years ago friends at MSFT Research told
> me that approximately 80% of the labor cost of bringing
> out a new version of Windows was backward compatibility.
> (As a collector of rather a lot of Excel files, I deeply
> appreciate that they all still work, for example.)
>
> --dan



 surely 90% of the labor cost is assuring cross-platform compatibility?
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