LibreSSL Will be Portable(undeadly.org)

47 pointsby throwaway2048vor 12 Jahren4 comments

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140509092303&mode=expanded&count=0

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Given how big the changes/cuts to OpenSSL so far this seems like a positive step towards making it a future credible alternative.

As for the vitriolic LibreSSL rhetoric. I for one hope that both projects continue to improve and thrive in the same way Chromium has since forking Webkit.

Not least because of the webs increasing dependence on TLS though changes like HTTP2/SPDY.

burkevor 12 Jahren

This was the strategy right from the start, as far as I read:

Step 1: simplify as much as possible, while only retaining OpenBSD compatibility to keep things easy.

Step 2: reintroduce portability to a more conservative set of OSes than OpenSSL.

Sir_Cmpwnvor 12 Jahren

Wasn't this planned from the start?

protomythvor 12 Jahren

Lot of people made noise about it not being portable "right now" which to them meant "never". Someone had to explicitly say it was.