Ben Laurie blathers about how a large corporation like Microsoft can take a nice, clean, single-bit specification of evil, and turn it into a variety of issues that don’t offer any notable improvement, and uses 21 bytes to store roughly the same data.
I love computer geek humor. You have to read to the end of the specification of evil to get to the funniest part:
This document defines the behavior of security elements for the 0x0 and 0x1 values of this bit. Behavior for other values of the bit may be defined only by IETF consensus [RFC2434].
Of course, that fits, since a truly evil specification forces you to read the whole thing to get to the best part. Luckily, this isn’t a very long specification, unlike others that are antically discussed in the news these days.
Alternately, the funniest part of the evil specification story may be the occasional reader who fails to carefully read the whole specification, including the header metadata…
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