Overwork and understaffing — two things that have been cited as the main causes of the Heartbleed bug, which suddenly brought OpenSSL and its gatekeepers to the world’s attention — aren’t news to Steve Henson and Steve Marquess. But thanks to Heartbleed, everyone else is beginning to understand what the duo have known for a while: Something needs to change, and goodwill and fond words alone won’t cut it. Right now significant parts of the internet’s cryptographic security rely on a tiny handful of people who are already stretched to the limits. If that fails, the modern world as we know it could cease to work as it should.