Wednesday Quote: Beware of Bugs

Posted on February 27, 2008
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I’ve decided to start including mid-week quotes to find excuses to write just a little more during the week. Sometimes I’ll just write the quote, and other times I’ll add little observations. I had to start with a classic:

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
~ Donald Knuth: “Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion“

The more I study cryptanalysis, the more this quote seems relevant. Your security is only as good as your assumptions.

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One Response to “Wednesday Quote: Beware of Bugs”

  1. Greg Molyneux on February 27th, 2008 4:50 pm

    Assumptions make fools of us all!

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