OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released

hardaker writes "After over 11 years of development since the start of the OpenSSL Project (1998-12-23), OpenSSL version 1.0.0 has finally hit the shelves of the free-for-all store."

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micro magnum

[epine]

In some of these open source projects, version 1.0 is like the first time the odometer in your car rolls over. Or like a couple who finally decide to get married after 15 years of living in sin. I wonder if this big decision involved a trip to Vegas.

Version 1.0 isn't that different from getting marriage. Some enter into it on the basis of hope and enthusiasm with neither experience nor skill, while others circle each other like planets in a decaying orbit.

A long run in the zero point nineties is like the people who are technically married, but have not yet escaped their parents' basements, lacking either the spirit or means of independence.

Then comes the bold and tremulous day when they finally cut the apron strings, while everyone stands around in state of genuine micro-perplexity going "I had no idea".

I read the other day that the dung beetle has been discovered to be one of the world's strongest organisms by body mass. I've never seen a single dung beetle toting a Champagne magnum. It's clear they can't get the cork out. Or maybe no one has figured out how to make the bubbles small enough to fit in the bottle.