[Cryptography] The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke

[William Arbaugh]

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>> He should be good now, with a promised $100,000 a year from Facebook and Stripe:
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> At least until he steps off the curb and is hit by a bus.  

Yes - he's also likely the target of every Intel service in the world now (if he wasn't already).

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> Heartbleed is a good example of the problem -- someone looked at the
> code when it went into openssl, but even though it's open source,
> there is a serious shortage of eyes of people who understand the code
> well enough to catch bugs on the way in.
> 
Out of curiosity has the GPG or associated UI's ever been audited?