[liberationtech] Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw

[Steve Weis]

$ git log --pretty=format:"%an" drivers/char/random.c | sort | uniq | wc

The number of committers to random.c is 41.

You missed having a lame joke by just one committer.


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Doug Chamberlin
> <chamberlin.doug at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you really saying THOUSANDS have reviewed and maintain the RNG? For
> > real?
>
> You are right — I didn't take the possibility of useless
> tongue-in-cheek remarks into account when using that expression in
> order to support a technical argument. Why don't you check the 20-year
> commit history of the relevant code [1], make an educated guess wrt.
> reviewers/committers ratio, account for developer attrition rate, and
> return to us with a hopefully better estimate. Good luck!
>
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/char/random.c
>
>
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