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LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds
Andrea Ross
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.
Recommended as a funny, fascinating tour of how bad the OpenSSL code was and what cleanup looks like.
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