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Every day, Ted Unangst is vindicated more and more[1] for his work forking OpenSSL.

If you do a little digging, you'll see that there was no real technical reason why your distro of choice has abandoned implementing LibreSSL[2][3], or just never implemented it at all[4]. They just somehow wanted to keep using the faulty software with exploit mitigation countermeasures[5][6]. Totally organic.

1. https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/analysis-of-openssl-freelis...

2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LibreSSL

3. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935

4. https://lwn.net/Articles/841664/

5. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139698531410614&w=2

6. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139698608410938&w=2



I don't think that has anything to with this, though.




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