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		crescentfresh on May 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017) > 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 on May 29, 2019 [–]

Didnt most of their changes get merged back?

aomix on May 29, 2019 | | [–]

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 on May 30, 2019 | | [–]

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