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This code is over 2 decades old. Pointing out that it's written in C is just about the least interesting thing you can say about it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140507/https://citeseerx...



OpenSSL leaking data was a huge deal and invited a lot of scrutiny of its choice of language.

The IPv6 code that leaked data is not 20 years old. The question deserves to be asked: why persist with C?

Why handwave a discussion about securing embedded devices away (this is a very popular embedded library) by claiming it's uninteresting?




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