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by zytek 4439 days ago
Some of it:

    todo: do not leave 15 year old todo lists in the tree.


    This code is the reason perl has a name as a write only language.


    Remove oh-so-important-from-a-security-pov OpenSSL_rtdsc() function.

    Do not feed RSA private key information to the random subsystem as entropy.  
    It might be fed to a pluggable random subsystem.... What were they thinking?!

    <RANT> Whoever thought that RAND_screen(), feeding the PRNG with the contents 
    of the local workstation's display, under Win32, was a smart idea, 
    ought to be banned from security programming. </RANT>

Edit: just noticed, there's a BLOG with it.. http://opensslrampage.org/