[Cryptography] Heartbleed and fundamental crypto programming practices

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2014, Jerry Leichter wrote:

> 2.  The designers fairly recently implemented something very much like 
> what is being designed, know all the problems they ran into, and want to 
> get it *right* this time.  They fall for a variant of Second System 
> Syndrome.

Ahhh...  It's been *ages* since I've seen that phrase.

ObCrypto:  Your first version won't work.  Your second version will be so 
bloated that it won't work either.  Your third version may work.

There's a beautiful cartoon Out There Somewhere (tm) called "The Rake's 
Progress."  All the customer really wanted was a rake...

-- Dave