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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
December 9, 2021 20:42
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: support httpsout-of-the-box
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 2:25 PM Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel@seyman.fr> wrote:
>
> * Craig A. Berry [09/12/2021 08:40] :
> >
> >                             I don't know; I suspect the only reason
> > LibreSSL works is that it's just a fork of OpenSSL with all the
> > non-Linux support gleefully chopped out, but that doesn't mean it's
> > impossible.
>
> As James has already said, LibreSSL was created by the BSD community
> and has, in fact, not seen much support in Linux-based distributions:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/841664/

Sorry, I remembered the commit messages about taking a chainsaw to
OpenSSL's portability features when the work started but had forgotten
who wrote them :-).
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