Comment by TZubiri

>The check is forgotten, optimised away, or never ported. The protocol’s security property silently degrades. This is the bug class bijou64 is designed to make impossible. Not by adding more checks, but by removing the one that mattered — and making the format such that, with no canonicality check at all, the only encoding that exists for any given value is the canonical one

Here's two passing tests for software craftmanship:

1) it looks decades into the past 2) it looks decades into the future