[Cryptography] Amazon releases open source cryptographic module

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 02:47:29 EDT 2015


The code wasn't so easy to read to prevent Heartbleed, now was it? Some of
the most catastrophic bugs in C seemingly involve a few lines of code
needing to be fixed.

To quote: s2n is written in C99, a language which lacks a "standard"
testing framework. Although there are some more well used C++ testing
frameworks, s2n also targets some embedded platforms on which a C++
compiler is unavailable.

https://github.com/awslabs/s2n/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPMENT-GUIDE.md
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