[SystemSafety] OpenSSL Bug

Jan Sanders jsanders at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Apr 11 17:10:45 CEST 2014


 
Am Freitag, 11. April 2014 16:38 CEST, Mike Rothon <mike.rothon at certisa.com> schrieb: 
 
> Since news of heartbleed came to light a couple of questions have been 
> going through my mind:
> 
> 1) How did we arrive at a situation where a large proportion of 
> seemingly mission / financially critical infrastructure relies on 
> software whose licence clearly states " This software is provided by the 
> openSSL project ``as is`` and any expressed or implied warranties, 
> including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability 
> and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed."?
I am not aware of licence agreements which do not contain this or similar disclaimers. I am grateful for pointers to TLS implementations which come without a warranty disclaimers.


Jan Sanders


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