On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:50:54 +1200 Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > "Perry E. Metzger" <pe...@piermont.com> writes: > Does that make them NSA plants? There's drafts for one or > two more fairly basic fixes to significant problems from other > people that get stalled forever, while the draft for adding sound > effects to the TLS key exchange gets fast-tracked. It's just what > standards committees do.
Maybe. Yesterday I would have consistently ascribed things to bureaucracy instead of malice. Today, I'm less sure. At the very least, the current revelations make such things less benevolent -- whether from malice or stupidity, we can no longer sit on security fixes on the basis that "no one will exploit them" and "they're not important to the user". Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography