[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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