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First Release of LibreSSL Portable Is Available

Posted by Soulskill on from the cryptic-announcements dept.

ConstantineM writes: It has finally happened. Bob Beck of The OpenBSD Foundation has just announced that the first release of LibreSSL portable is now available, and can be found in the LibreSSL directory of your favourite OpenBSD mirror. libressl-2.0.0.tar.gz has been tested to build on various versions of Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. This is intended to be an initial portable release of OpenBSD's libressl to allow the community to start using it and providing feedback, and has been done to address the issue of incorrect portable versions being attempted by third-parties. Support for additional platforms will be added as time and resources permit.

3 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Happy to let someone else test it by Noryungi · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is not just ''cruft'' in the code base: if I remember correctly, they removed thousands upon thousands of lines of code from OpenSSL - think VMS, Borland C, Windows 3.x, MS Visual C++ (etc) support.

    And they tested the whole thing on the OpenBSD ports - so far, nothing has been broken.

    Oh and FIPS support? Not gonna happen. Bob Beck has been very very clear on that subject. OpenBSD does not care too much about US government standard.

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  2. Re:Happy to let someone else test it by Bengie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Heartbeat support is optional and negotiated. I don't know why you think it 'must' be supported.

  3. Also works fine under NetBSD by ci4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Test suite summary for libressl 2.0.0
    'make check' under -current amd64:

    TOTAL: 41
    PASS: 41
    SKIP: 0
    XFAIL: 0
    FAIL: 0
    XPASS: 0
    ERROR: 0