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+ <B>Paul Hoffman</B>
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+ <I>Mon Jan 3 10:40:18 CST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.dlitz.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pycrypto">zooko at zooko.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i> Folks:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> We need to decide what to do when we find flaws in PyCrypto which
+</I>&gt;<i> would expose a user who relies on PyCrypto to harm.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> It wouldn't hurt to send an announcement email in some consistent
+</I>&gt;<i> format saying something like &quot;security advisory&quot; in the subject line,
+</I>&gt;<i> and to update the download page or a NEWS page or whatever to warn
+</I>&gt;<i> about the insecure Elgamal implementation.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Perhaps also delete, comment-out, or disable the Elgamal
+</I>&gt;<i> implementation and ship a new release of PyCrypto.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> It really makes me uncomfortable to see the PyCrypto project ship
+</I>&gt;<i> software to users which claims on the label that they can rely on it
+</I>&gt;<i> when we know that if they do, they may be exposed to harm.
+</I>
++1 to commenting out or disabling things which anyone has serious
+security concerns over.
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