Hi DRC!

Sorry, I didn’t mean to advocate a monoculture in a vacuum. My point was 
delivered much more eloquently by Roland: Given the set of practical issues 
we’re worried about today, delivering a service via multiple codebases 
certainly isn’t a magic bullet. Upon closer inspection heterogeneity might 
reduce exposure to catastrophe much less than you’d expect. Or more likely, 
have a multiplicative effect instead.

For a simple example, if my business depended on PKI, would I have gained 
security and reliability over the last few years by using both OpenSSL and 
GnuTLS? Would adding in native OSX and Windows frameworks have reduced my 
exposure or multiplied my risks?

Cheers,
matto


> On Dec 14, 2014, at 2:52 PM, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 14, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Matthew Ghali <mgh...@snark.net> wrote:
> 
>> How does code diversity fix protocol vulns?
> 
> Because different people implement the protocol differently (as evidenced by 
> the above)?
> 
> Of course, one might argue that the fact that there were different behaviors 
> might suggest a bug in the protocol specification, but that doesn't argue 
> against code diversity.  Code diversity is to help mitigate implementation 
> bugs.
> 
> Regards,
> -drc
> 

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