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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:07:58 -0500
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "freebsd-security@freebsd.org security" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Crypto overhaul
Message-ID:  <20171029190758.GE26855@kduck.kaduk.org>
In-Reply-To: <df46aaa5-13a9-2fc6-bcd2-d57d792800eb@metricspace.net>
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On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 08:36:01PM -0400, Eric McCorkle wrote:
> On 10/28/2017 09:15, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > --------
> > In message <20171028123132.GF96685@kduck.kaduk.org>, Benjamin Kaduk writes:
> > 
> >> I would say that the 1.1.x series is less bad, especially on the last count,
> >> but don't know how much you've looked at the differences in the new branch.
> > 
> > While "less bad" is certainly a laudable goal for OpenSSL, I hope
> > FreeBSD has higher ambitions.
> > 
> 
> I'm curious about your thoughts on LibreSSL as a possible option.

I haven't been following LibreSSL enough to have an informed opinion, but
my uninformed opinion was that OpenSSL proper has been proceeding with
modernization at a faster pace than LibreSSL.

-Ben



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