Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced

An anonymous reader writes "As some of you may know, the OpenBSD team has started cleaning up the OpenSSL code base. LibreSSL is primarily developed by the OpenBSD Project, and its first inclusion into an operating system will be in OpenBSD 5.6. In the wake of Heartbleed, the OpenBSD group is creating a simpler, cleaner version of the dominant OpenSSL. Theo de Raadt, founder and leader of OpenBSD and OpenSSH, tells ZDNet that the project has already removed 90,000 lines of C code and 150,000 lines of content. The project further promises multi-OS support once they have proper funding and the right portability team in place. Please consider donating to support LibreSSL via the OpenBSD foundation."

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[bluefoxlucid]

It's not about a better OpenSSL. It's about OpenBSD waving its penis around. That's all it is. The OpenSSL team is amenable to aid; but they have two developers and no help. OpenBSD is essentially holding OpenSSL hostage by making their own version, not contributing back, and making it OS-specific to OpenBSD unless you give them money to make it not.

This will ultimately end in a lot of additional wasted effort to undo the damage OpenBSD is doing to LibreSSL so that the code can be ported back into OpenSSL proper, rather than investing slightly more effort in the first pass to do it right and not having a hefty second pass where they need to identify why it doesn't work on Linux/FreeBSDlWindows and then undo some of the things they did.