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Comment Re:Throwing out all compatibility hooks makes it e (Score 5, Insightful) 164

They are re-writing LibreSSL for *OPENBSD* across all the hardware platforms OpenBSD runs on.

Once they have stabilized it, another team, the Portability team, will then add a portability layer for other OSes.

What is so difficult to understand, and why is everyone getting their knickers up in a bunch over it?

If you like OpenSSL, continue to use it. If you want a safe, secure ssl implementation, you wait for them to finish LibreSSL and use OpenBSD. If you want a safe, secure ssl implementation on other OSes, you wait for the Portability team to finish its work. To help speed it up, donate $$ so that they can bring in more programmers.

Any other bitching just shows what an idiot you are (not saying you're bitching, just pointing that out to the general peanut gallery).

Submission + - LibreSSL Update (openbsd.org)

the_B0fh writes: Bob Beck reports on the progress the OpenBSD team has made on LibreSSL. Some highlights:

Code was horrible. Nobody wanted to touch it. OpenSSL Foundation appears to be a million dollar a year for-profit company doing FIPS consulting. Bugs rot for years in bug tracker. ROP coding function — allows you to jump to any arbitrary address — ROP coder's wet dream! Current third party ports are all insecure. Need funding. Linux Foundation has not committed to support LibreSSL.

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