When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work

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24 points | by Funes- 4 hours ago

3 comments

  • systemsweird 2 minutes ago
    Very good writeup and an astonishing level of negligence for an extremely security critical piece of code. The losses are going to surpass 100 million, these guys should be thrown in jail.
  • anonymousiam 2 hours ago
    This post assumed that the author of the "runs" commit was not acting maliciously. Has that been established? It's not mentioned in this article.
    • eru 1 hour ago
      Also: writing this stuff in C just begs for bugs.

      LLM agents are cheap and good enough that you can write in eg Lean or whatever. Or at least write it in Rust.

      • jgilias 1 hour ago
        The bug has been up since before the LLM shift.
      • thin_carapace 1 hour ago
        I get the feeling that the bugs found in this instance can be more directly attributed to the author having zero experience operating a microcontroller
    • Sharlin 1 hour ago
      Hanlon’s razor.
  • fenestella 1 hour ago
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