Re: [pro] Heartbleed?

2014-04-27 Thread Nathan Froyd
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Antoni Grzymała wrote: > Tako rzecze Nathan Froyd (2014-04-25, 16:42): >> Ironclad has many deficiencies that make it unsuitable for serious >> cryptographic software. > > I'm curious what they would be – would you be able to outline th

Re: [pro] Heartbleed?

2014-04-25 Thread Nathan Froyd
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:20 PM, William Lederer wrote: > Thus, I feel Lisp is better but not a total panacea. For example, has the > Ironclad library been examined by a cryptographer? Does it, for example, do > constant-time comparisons to avoid timing leaks? The answer to these (and many other

Re: [pro] why :key arguments?

2011-07-04 Thread Nathan Froyd
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Tamas Papp wrote: > I understand this.  My main question is: why not do this with compiler > macros?  Is there any reason for this, other than historical? 3.2.2.1.3 might offer some insight: "However, no language processor (compiler, evaluator, or other code walker