OpenSSL Announces Final Release of OpenSSL 3.2.0

Re:OpenSSL Announces Final Release of OpenSSL 3.2.0 by halJordan on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:48AM (#38394026)

Ok whats you're problem that you want to see addressed?

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Re:OpenSSL Announces Final Release of OpenSSL 3.2.0 by jjjjmoney on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:01AM (#38394204)

Personally, I’d like to see a slower addition of features in something as critical as OpenSSL.

LibreSSL (part of the OpenBSD project) has been aggressively pruning and hardening the codebase and is not immune to bugs. Security in crypto libraries is very hard.

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Re:OpenSSL Announces Final Release of OpenSSL 3.2.0 by formerly_proven on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:28PM (#38395869)

OpenSSL is the kitchen sink for relatively well validated, fast crypto primitives, yet every project that uses one of those has to include the other couple megs of libcrypto (most of that is in ASN1 and X509 implementations, which are libcrypto and not libssl). Certainly seems to me like there's room for a librealcrypto (ought to fit in well under a meg) and a libitutils (all that X509 stuff).

OpenSSL is historically also the kitchen sink for TLS features and extensions, with rather mixed results.

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