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Given the attention OpenSSL just "received" wouldn't it make sense to start a mass audit effort?

Why not counterbalance the "crypto software is hard, don't touch it" idea with some simple tasks, like: check all allocs in openssl for bounds checks? "mark" missing ones? "mark" fishy ones etc.

Can a software security audit be crowd-sourced and be meaningful?



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