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Re: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim deleskie)
Wed Mar 5 16:58:35 2014
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:58:12 -0400
From: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Doing some serious adjusting of my tinfoil today over his :)
-jim
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
>
> > On Mar 4, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this the *same* bug that just broke in Apple code last week?
> >
> > No, the Apple bug was the existence of an /extra/ "goto fail;".
> >
> > The GnuTLS bug was that it was /missing/ a "goto fail;".
> >
> > I'm figuring the same developer worked on both, and just put the line
> > in the wrong repository. :)
>
> Those who speculate that these bugs happened at the behest of the NSA
> would probably agree with you.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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