[Cryptography] Heartbleed and fundamental crypto programming practices

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Apr 26 19:16:09 EDT 2014


On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, John Ioannidis wrote:

> > Whoever designed ASN.1 must have been smoking something.  Is there a 
> > reason to keep on using it?
> 
> It's a CCITT (now ITU) standard. Like all ITU standards, it was done by 
> people with severe anocranial inversion.

How does that saying go?  "A camel is a horse designed by a committee, 
because everyone wanted their own input."

Sadly, despite Schneier's best efforts, crypto is turning that way.

-- Dave


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