Man we would have been so much better with plaintext communications everywhere, right?
You cite heartbleed as a negative but a) SSL would never have proliferated as it has without openssl and b) the fix was out in under a week and deployed widely even faster.
The alternative, proprietary crypto, would have all the same problems including the current laggards, but likely without everyone understanding what happened and how bad it was. In fact, it probably wouldn’t have been patched because some manager would’ve decided it wasn’t worth it vs new features.
In all seriousness though, I just disagree and I think it’s important to note the inaccuracy of thinking that a bug, which is famous only because it was deliberately publicized and deliberately open source, is anything but a huge win compared to what would likely have played out had the most popular SSL library in the world been proprietary and closed.
The only person in the whole thread talking about proprietary software is that guy.
This is a thread about how the accepted wisdom that many eyes make open source software more secure is based on the assumption that someone else is effectively auditing the code base which has been proven over and over again not to be true.
E: I just looked at this thread and now everyone is talking about proprietary software. It would be cool if the progression of time made fools of us all, but it looks like it’s just me this time.
*cough* Heartbleed *cough*
Man we would have been so much better with plaintext communications everywhere, right?
You cite heartbleed as a negative but a) SSL would never have proliferated as it has without openssl and b) the fix was out in under a week and deployed widely even faster.
The alternative, proprietary crypto, would have all the same problems including the current laggards, but likely without everyone understanding what happened and how bad it was. In fact, it probably wouldn’t have been patched because some manager would’ve decided it wasn’t worth it vs new features.
Lol u mad
I’m not mad, just disappointed.
In all seriousness though, I just disagree and I think it’s important to note the inaccuracy of thinking that a bug, which is famous only because it was deliberately publicized and deliberately open source, is anything but a huge win compared to what would likely have played out had the most popular SSL library in the world been proprietary and closed.
What do you disagree with? Heartbleed was a vulnerability in OpenSSL. It affected millions of computers.
that is a big problem. it was quickly fixed and i dont see how it does proprietary software any favors…
The only person in the whole thread talking about proprietary software is that guy.
This is a thread about how the accepted wisdom that many eyes make open source software more secure is based on the assumption that someone else is effectively auditing the code base which has been proven over and over again not to be true.
E: I just looked at this thread and now everyone is talking about proprietary software. It would be cool if the progression of time made fools of us all, but it looks like it’s just me this time.