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How to weed out the next Heartbleed bug: ENISA details crypto worries

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The cryptographic protocols used to secure data moving across the web are putting users at risk due to design flaws that date back many years. Given the current push to encrypt everything in response to revelations of government surveillance, it's important that the protocols being used to do the job are actually secure.

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Bob_Robertson ·
"Future protocols shouldn't be more complex than necessary, and be designed so that they can be upgraded as time passes, ENISA says."

Gee, where have I heard that before?

Something like, "small tools that do one thing well and communicate through standard protocols"?
gus3 ·
Actually, the first thing I thought of was "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bob_Robertson ·
Gus, thanks for the chortle.

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