That's sort of what I was feeling when I saw that the National Security Agency was releasing a secured version of Linux 2.2 into the "open source" community, along with the background on the testing models it used for verification. It . . .
That's sort of what I was feeling when I saw that the National Security Agency was releasing a secured version of Linux 2.2 into the "open source" community, along with the background on the testing models it used for verification. It was just too weird to be happening. The people behind the triple fence in Fort Meade, Md. giving out something? Sources to their code? Verification strategies with annotations? The same folk who used to be able to make any cryptography that they didn't like disappear forever? The sheer immense significance of what this release of code implied was stunning, like a hard punch to the gut.

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