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		cwp on June 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing s2n, a New Open-Source TLS Implementat... No! Let's have many implementations all with completely separate code bases. Then when the next security bug is found it won't affect the whole internet.

mattbillenstein on June 30, 2015 [–]

I can see that side of it, but when N >> M I don't really see how that helps things significantly.

N = number of https sites M = number of tls implementations

cwp on July 1, 2015 | [–]

You don't think N(M-1)/M sites not being affected by the next heartbleed wouldn't be significant?

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