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Re: [CFRG] Escalation: time commitment to fix *production* security bugs for BLS RFC v4?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sat, 24 April 2021 14:56 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Loup Vaillant-David <loup@loup-vaillant.fr>, Quan Thoi Minh Nguyen <msuntmquan@gmail.com>, "Riad S. Wahby" <rsw@jfet.org>
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Thread-Topic: [CFRG] Escalation: time commitment to fix *production* security bugs for BLS RFC v4?
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] Escalation: time commitment to fix *production* security bugs for BLS RFC v4?
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>    There may be one way: holding implementers accountable.

>    They relied on a draft. As such, they took a gamble. Now they lost that
    gamble, and gambling ethics dictates that they pay up.

Yes.  Strongly agree that this is the best approach.  This is a *DRAFT*  It would be like implementing Rijndael and then complaining that it has bugs and isn't AES.

Contact the people who developed and put things into production.

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