Matthew Green recalls being brushed off by OpenSSL weeks before Heartbleed hit
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-27
Cryptographer Matthew Green recalls his 2014 exchange with OpenSSL developers, who told him "critical infrastructure" meant dams and power plants — implying their library didn't count. Shortly after, Heartbleed erupted as one of the largest mass-scale vulnerabilities the internet had seen, a classic anecdote about chronic underinvestment in open-source security.
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