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Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by whyever on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:39AM (#12693826)
What about switching to Rust? https://github.com/ctz/rustls
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Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:48AM (#12693899)
Impressive, but I'm willing to bet nobody will want to rewrite all of open/libreSSL, one of the most popular cryptographic libraries out there, in Rust.
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Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by steveklabnik on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:36PM (#12694924)
https://crates.io/crates/ring , which is BoringSSL, being ported over. Eventually it'll be Rust and asm.

(And is what rustls uses)

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Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @02:00PM (#12695135)
Well then, maybe. Consider me corrected.
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Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by pjmlp on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:29PM (#12694865)
Nice, thanks for point it out.
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