On: The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017)

[eloy]

> And stop forking OpenSSL; you’re just making things worse.

Yeah no. OpenBSD developers did a really good job by improving the codebase of OpenSSL. See also some of their presentations: https://www.libressl.org/papers.html

[crescentfresh → eloy]

> by improving the codebase of OpenSSL

Just to clarify: LibreSSL forked OpenSSL [1]. By definition they did not improve the codebase of OpenSSL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreSSL

[zwerdlds → crescentfresh]

Didnt most of their changes get merged back?

[aomix → zwerdlds]

Most of the LibreSSL changes were removing features or platform support so I don't know how many of their changes were desired or applicable to OpenSSL.

[crescentfresh → zwerdlds]

Source on this?