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Ask HN: Which TLS implementation do you use at work?

Until today I'd only heard of OpenSSL and GnuTLS.Wikipedia lists: Botan, cryptlib, CyaSSL, GnuTLS, MatrixSSL, Network Security Services, OpenSSL, PolarSSL, Schannel, Secure Transport and JSSE.I'm curious to see how much "market share" OpenSSL has given the recent bug, and what kind of operations specifically DO NOT use OpenSSL, in favour of another implementation.

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Re:TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:28AM (#7360364)
Sorry, cash in person only.
Re:Clear Sans on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:03PM (#7342680)
I've started noticing different a's recently in typography since it was pointed out to me that people with dyslexia and people with lower literacy skills struggle with the "upright" style lowercase A (as show in this font and a lot of other popular fonts) as opposed to the "italic" style lowercase A that most people hand write.
Re:The new PHP on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:58AM (#7340529)
There's some discussion on the RFCs and mailing lists about creating new backwards-incompatible OO APIs for the core libraries which would eventually replace some of the legacy mess.

Sending emails via plane in the jungle

I was chatting with one of my dad's friends recently who was telling me about how they sometimes used to send emails back in the 1990's when they were in Papua New Guinea working as missionaries. I thought it was worth sharing!"The phone lines were down for several weeks/months so we needed to transfer the emails from Port Moresby [the capital city where the only Internet pipeline is/was]. That...

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Shame this isn't an unbiased/independent report.
It's a combination of laziness, ignorance and a reluctance to migrate/fix legacy code.
Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:06PM (#5558925)
I already successfully use this method between my work laptop (Windows 7) and my home laptop (Ubuntu 11.04) and haven't run into any problems yet!
Re:Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @05:18AM (#4841813)
Is no-one else worried about these TOS applying to their email attachments?

you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps).

EDIT: I guess it's a moot point if you're already using Gmail.

Re:Ask HN: is poutsch a good name for a web app? on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @06:19AM (#4813769)
IMO it's kind of hard to pronounce (-tsch is not common in English) and remember how to spell.