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		DanBC on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Air Gaps All those people reviewing the code took two years to discover the Debian SSL bug. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number... https://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys

sneak on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

Now how long would that have taken WITHOUT source code?

Would we _ever_ have known (without keyfiles on disk to analyze)?

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