On 04/06/14 23:29, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:38:05AM -0400, Mike Bland wrote:
>> It seems that the encryption algorithms themselves are relatively
>> well-tested; in contrast, Heartbleed was an infrastructure bug. It's
>> in shoring up the test coverage of the infrastructure bits where I can
>> be of most direct service, but I'm hoping others may see opportunities
>> to apply similar techniques to more advanced testing issues.
> 
> As far as I know the test covering SSL now try to set up a server
> and client with various options and see that they can connect to
> each other.  It only seems to be testing the happy path.  I would
> like to see more tests covering the non-happy path.  That of
> course also goes for all crypto related things.

That is definitely where the high value will be obtained. But that's a
hard problem I think to start with. It might be better to start with
something simpler - at least until the team is established and has
figured out ways of working.

Matt

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