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Re: making Debian secure by default



On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:50:22 -0500
John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:

> Joe writes:
> > I think this was amply demonstrated by Heartbleed, where the
> > offending code was examined by *one* other pair of eyes, before
> > approval was granted for inclusion in OpenSSL.  
> 
> The "many eyes" phase comes after release.

Which didn't happen, at least not for two years.

I would suggest that for any software as critical as OpenSSL, more than
one pair of eyes would have been appropriate *before* release.

-- 
Joe


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