[Cryptography] Heartbleed and fundamental crypto programming practices

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Apr 16 02:10:49 EDT 2014


On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, danimoth wrote:

> If I understood correctly, all crypto software should be compiled with 
> -O0 flag...

I've never trusted optimisers; in essence you are asking an unknown party 
to rewrite your critical code for you with no oversight, and hopefully get 
it right.

-- Dave, bitten by many an optimiser


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