Re: How to form a proper hash after writing somethinginto SSL handshake.

Jordan Brown <openssl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 29 Dec 2017 09:11:25 -0800



    On 12/29/2017 6:00 AM, Marty G wrote:

    
      For the same reason one doesn't wear a halloween costume to a
      technical meeting, Comic Sans is looked down upon when used
      outside comics and day-care centers.  It is considered a snub to
      use it in non-trivial settings.

      
      Much as lifting up your middle finger has no inherent meaning per
      se, but once one realizes that it definitely has meaning to others
      and one lifts one's middle finger to others anyway, it can only be
      assumed that one has intended to send the message others have
      assigned to it.  So, for whatever vague societal reasons, comic
      sans has become equivalent to wearing a speedo to a formal
      wedding, giggling hysterically during one's performance review, or
      skipping around the track in a tu-tu and clownface during the 440
      meter track event at the Olympics.  Those are the breaks!  Sorry
      for your loss of a connotation free comic sans.  I feel your
      pain.  Herd dynamics can be brutal and bleak.

      
      http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/comic-sans

      "...While
        adequate for certain industry sectors like childcare and
        entertainment, its usage in business or professional settings
        has been criticized by many aesthetic-conscious Internet users,
        who say Comic Sans conveys silliness and irreverence that is
        hardly suitable for serious matters....:
    

    Committing a fashion faux pas may be gauche, but pointing and
    laughing is even more so.  If you think that somebody's choice of
    fashion is inappropriate, keep it to yourself or an appropriate
    gossip forum.  Congratulations, you've just convinced this newcomer
    that the openssl-users group is populated by fashionistas rather
    than serious technical people.

    
    The original poster had a technical question.  I don't know enough
    to answer it, or I would.  Could somebody who *does* know enough
    please take a stab?

    
    Saiteja, one suggestion:  when an error occurs, don't just report
    that there was a problem.  Report what the problem was.  Don't these
    functions set the results that SSL_get_error( ) returns?

  
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