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> Akamai strongly implied that their patch protected customers.

Actually they said exactly the opposite of that:

> This should really be considered more of a proof of concept than something that you want to put directly into production. Let me restate that: do not just take this patch and put it into production without careful review.

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I think polemic was referencing this statement[1] when he talks about "their patch" (and not the released patch):-

> This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade.

1. From the original Akamai missive: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.user/...

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