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by basique 1010 days ago
Not publishing source code demotivates the white hats and "good people" more than the bad actors, IMHO. There's a reason a lot of cryptography-related libraries have open/available source code

> But have you ever found an exploit and reported it? Yes, actually. It was for a project I had already contributed to, so I was just reading source code and stumbled upon a somewhat critical bug. The main problem there was figuring out how to fix it without breaking API, really.