[Cryptography] RSA is dead.

Tom Mitchell mitch at niftyegg.com
Fri Dec 27 01:56:59 EST 2013


 In code reviews...

What is the state of folding editors (or am I showing my age)?
Do they help anyone?

What are the risks of shared objects that today are "safe" and
tomorrow unsafe in a specific use context.

What are the risks of compilers with intrinsic functions where
code is inserted in the binary in some cases code that one
might expect to be in a shared object.  i.e. Compilers and
link editors can remove the function call and copy code into
the object removing the ability of a bug fix via shared object.

What caller conventions are safe?

I ask because code review has visibility to perhaps the top 5% of the
problem space
in a single program.

What tools and environments have strong "deprecation" semantics that can
shut down bad code and "force" or "trigger"  an update effectively.



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