Comment Re:Choice is NOT ALWAYS good (Score 4, Insightful) 128
BoringSSL is a great name and directly addresses what got OpenSSL into trouble most recently, implementing a new protocol parameter based on a student's idea for a degree thesis. Innovation for innovation's sake, that was. Hurriedly applied for some reason.
And it's not something a website would "use," if you mean a high level protocol akin to "https." It's a library to implement common standards.