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Re: [Cryptography] how reliably do audits spot backdoors?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Dec 27 22:12:25 2013
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:32:15 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, brk7bx@virginia.edu,
hallam@gmail.com
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> Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> writes:
>> Python suffers from the same dll hell idiocy as Windows used to before people
>> started to get a clue and realize that shared object libraries are not your
>> friend.
On 2013-12-28 10:45, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Linux in general seems to suffer from this. It was always amusing seeing
> Linux users make fun of Windows because of DLL hell (circa Windows 3.1), but
> then go on to create their own depdency tartarus, malbolge, xibalba, naraka,
> and sheol. Open-source security tools seem to be particularly bad for this,
> the amount of hacking you need to do to get something up and running often
> isn't worth the effort.
>
> Peter (yeah, I know, way off-topic).
Right on topic.
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