10 Feb
2007
10 Feb
'07
10:13 a.m.
Openssl is validated by NIST which makes it fit for use by the US govt.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1935232
strange that binary blobs can be certified easily while certifying source code is a problem.
True. But then again its not so strange as when you have multi billion dollar govt. contracts at stake ``certain" proprietary companies will go to any length to keep an open standard out.
i mean some of the complaints by those companies(mainly to delay the validation) were downright ridiculous, e.g saying OpenSSL should not be used as it contains ``commie" i.e communist code written by a Russian developer. How the hell and in which universe is #include<stdio.h> classified as capitalist or communist?
Regards
- vihan