[Cryptography] how reliably do audits spot backdoors?

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Fri Dec 27 21:32:15 EST 2013


> Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com> writes:
>> Python suffers from the same dll hell idiocy as Windows used to before people
>> started to get a clue and realize that shared object libraries are not your
>> friend.

On 2013-12-28 10:45, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Linux in general seems to suffer from this.  It was always amusing seeing
> Linux users make fun of Windows because of DLL hell (circa Windows 3.1), but
> then go on to create their own depdency tartarus, malbolge, xibalba, naraka,
> and sheol.  Open-source security tools seem to be particularly bad for this,
> the amount of hacking you need to do to get something up and running often
> isn't worth the effort.
>
> Peter (yeah, I know, way off-topic).

Right on topic.



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