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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:57:38 -0400
From: Brandon Whaley <redkrieg@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Truly scary SSL 3.0 vuln to be revealed soon:

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Walter Parker <walterp@...il.com> wrote:
> Why do people on lists like this seem to think that censoring themselves
> and others will actually do any good.

Once a vulnerability is "public", it's in the interest of everyone
that it become common knowledge among the affected parties as quickly
as possible.  Any kind of self-censorship after the first
publicization is detrimental in the long term.

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