OpenSSL vs. LibreSSL (OpenBSD)

Allan Jude freebsd at allanjude.com
Fri Apr 25 15:30:01 UTC 2014


On 2014-04-25 10:57, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 04/24/14 23:41, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> On 4/24/14, 1:35 PM, O. Hartmann 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/)?
>>>
>>> oh
>> We need to discuss the use of comic sans font across our web properties
>> first.
> And, by the way, did they really use a blink tag in their project home
> page???? :D
>

They did really use a <blink> tag, then realized that in modern browsers
like firefox and chrome, it doesn't do anything. So at some point later,
they added some CSS to change the <blink> tag into a CSS animation that
actually blinks.


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