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LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds

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What it is

Bob Beck of OpenBSD gives a BSDCan 2014 talk on the first month of LibreSSL, the OpenSSL fork. He explains why they forked, what they removed, and examples of the problems found in the OpenSSL code base.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a funny, fascinating tour of how bad the OpenSSL code was and what cleanup looks like.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Anyone interested in details of LibreSSL development can watch the BSDCan talk at”

    Details of LibreSSL development and OpenSSL code problems.

    ivoras, 2014-05 · Recommendation · in “OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative”

  2. “There is a fascinating and funny talk by Bob Beck from OpenBSD on the first 30 days after forking OpenSSL.”

    Funny talk on scary OpenSSL code and what LibreSSL removed.

    mrweasel, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “OpenSSL 3.0”

  3. “Also, an interesting talk”

    Talk from BSDCan on LibreSSL's early days.

    yakubin, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: libressl, openssl, openbsd, code cleanup, security

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