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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Sam Leffler wrote:

> I am not arguing for Mike to remove his change.  I am noting that making
> changes to critical system components w/o review and/or testing is
> dangerous.  Going forward we should have some tools for validating changes
> like this.

FWIW, I fully support this line of thinking. I don't want to denigrate
Mike's considerable effort here, but fundamental bits, especially things
related to cryptography, should be reviewed before committed.

Doug

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