Alex Gaynor 12/13/2018

Optimize for Auditability

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This technical article discusses the concept of 'auditability' in software development, advocating for designing code, APIs, and patterns to make security vulnerabilities easier to identify during reviews. It contrasts auditability with readability and maintainability, using the design of the pyca/cryptography Python library as a concrete example of how explicit API design aids security audits.

Optimize for Auditability

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