RE: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

[Thijs Stuurman <Thijs.Stuurman () is nl>]

I applaud their effort but please see https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/heartbleed-update-v3.html

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http://lekkertech.net/akamai.txt


Kind regards / Vriendelijke groet,

IS Group
Thijs Stuurman

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Niels Bakker [mailto:niels=nanog () bakker net] 
Verzonden: Sunday, April 13, 2014 6:53 PM
Aan: nanog () nanog org
Onderwerp: Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

* randy () psg com (Randy Bush) [Sun 13 Apr 2014, 16:52 CEST]:
> > > the point of open source is that the community is supposed to be 
> > > doing this.  we failed.
> > Versus all of the closed source bugs that nobody can know of or do 
> > anything about?
> for those you can blame the vendor.  

BSAFE is almost worse if you go by the recent advisories that have been released about it.  Many vendors incorporated 
OpenSSL into their products and sold the result for commercial profit without doing (in retrospect) enough due 
diligence.  Besides, having a third party to blame doesn't make our data safer...

At least one vendor, Akamai is helping out now: 
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-users&m=139723710923076&w=2
I hope other vendors will follow suit.


> this one is owned by the community. it falls on us to try to lower the 
> probability of a next one by actively auditing source as our civic 
> duty.

I donated some money to the OpenSSL project and hope others will do, or have already done, the same.  It's clear that 
they are internet infrastructure and need more support.


        -- Niels.