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palata • yesterday at 4:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Didn't they say it already? They basically think that the OpenSSL API is convoluted. That's my understanding of the comment above, at least.


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timschmidt • yesterday at 4:28 PM

Unnecessarily complicated APIs are a security code smell precisely because they help hide bugs, leaky abstractions, insecure state, and other exploitable issues.

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