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LibreSSL with Bob Beck
Jason Tubnor
Bob Beck of OpenBSD describes the first month of LibreSSL, the fork aimed at cleaning up OpenSSL, including oddities found in the code base and why it was cleaned rather than audited cryptographically.
Frequently linked as an entertaining and alarming account of OpenSSL code quality and why the fork happened.
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