OpenSSL vs. LibreSSL (OpenBSD)

[Dimitry Andric]

On 24 Apr 2014, at 22:35, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> It seems that OpenBSD is now forking their own SSL implementation, called LibreSSL. As
> OpenBSD speaks for many similar opinion regarding the state of the code of OpenSSL, I'd
> like to hear what the plans are in FreeBSD for this critical portion of software.
> 
> Is FreeBSD going to support the effords taken by OpenBSD and participating in the
> LibreSSL development (http://www.libressl.org/)?

Wouldn't it be wiser to wait and see what comes out of this project? :)
Besides, they're first making it for OpenBSD only (which is completely
reasonable), porting it will come even later.

If you want to contribute to LibreSSL now, I think the best you can do
is to donate money.  They don't seem to need more programmers... :)

-Dimitry

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