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frostlynxtoday at 1:52 AM1 replyview on HN

The problem with proof is that it’s a bit hard sometimes to convey the value. The point is not to find bugs, but to prove that there are none (of a certain class; under certain assumptions; etc). But it’s a hard story to sell, so often the marketing is around “look at this bug we found”.


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Eridrustoday at 1:56 AM

I would be much more interested in "here is a provably memory safe version of openssl with all its memory safety bugs fixed"