On 18/06/2023 21:42, Miles Rout wrote:
On 19 June 2023 3:24:50 am NZST, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> 
wrote:
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 16:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Do you remember "Heartbleed"? We owe that to someone who has
successfully completed his doctorate with this achievement. A PhD
student who overestimates his skills can be worse than a traitor.

"Der Quellcode, der den Fehler aufweist, wurde am 31. Dezember 2011 von
dem einzigen fest angestellten Mitarbeiter des OpenSSL-Teams aus dem
Entwurfszweig in das OpenSSL-Git-Repository eingepflegt" -
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

IOW he was payed for doing his "excellent" work. All those kids never
programmed using plain Assembly, all of them are smartasses users of
compiler languages, without any knowhow how the compiler does translate
the code to Assembly.

What the hell are you on about?  Why are you spamming this list about this 
irrelevant nonsense out of nowhere? How exactly is this relevant to the 
discussion?

The Heartbeat implementation contained a buffer overflow. It was a simple bug. 
It wasn't caught before being merged in and it wasn't caught by any audits or 
fuzzing or testing - none was being done.

None of this is or should be a stain on Seggleman's character. The blame for 
the impact of the bug lies with the widespread adoption of OpenSSL by people 
that assumed that it was bugfree and relied on it 100%.

Everyone makes mistakes, including you. It has nothing to do with knowing ASM.

Cheers,
Miles.

Please stop this off-topic discussion. Consider this a warning.

--
Leonidas Spyropoulos
Developer & DevOps
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