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Re:OpenSSL 3.0.7 Published by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:00PM (#33423939)
To be fair, OpenSSL was first released in 1998. We didn't have fast memory-safe languages back then. Java existed, but was incredibly slow.
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Re:OpenSSL 3.0.7 Published by jeffbee on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:14PM (#33424133)
The function in question was written in 2020. OpenSSL 3 is an incompatible major rewrite undertaken during 2018-2021 and there is no no valid excuse for why language quality was not improved at that time.
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Re:OpenSSL 3.0.7 Published by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:01PM (#33425835)
> OpenSSL 3 is an incompatible major rewrite

Oh snap I didn't know that, and I probably should have. TIL.

Then yeah, you're right. It probably should have been written in Rust.

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