[Cryptography] Fwd: OPENSSL FREAK

dan at geer.org dan at geer.org
Thu Apr 9 14:13:43 EDT 2015


Answering everyone and no one, here is the most succinct form that
I have yet come up with:

   Problem: Devices that are unfixable & immortal

   Solution: Mortal if unfixable || Fixable if immortal


Yes, I know, for absolutely any solution there will be opponents
the chief of which are inertia and ignorance.  So WTF else is new?

A better behavioral economist than I might now work on an insurance
scheme whereby so long as you take the updates it is the maker that
is strictly liable for all downsides, else it is you.

--dan



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