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First Release of LibreSSL Portable Available

posted by azrael on Saturday July 12 2014, @03:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the small-enough-to-carry dept.

cnst 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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:38AM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:38AM (#67986) Journal

    I wonder if this is aimed at the Joe User, or software developers.
    Is this something that is drop in compatible with existing SSL libraries?

    How moch software out there relies on the detritus they excised?

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:47AM (#67992)

    Yes, it's a drop-in replacement. I just overwrote openssl with libressl today and I haven't found a single piece of software that breaks.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 12 2014, @06:41AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday July 12 2014, @06:41AM (#68001) Journal

      Neat!

      That should mean that the API has an alright design?

      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 12 2014, @07:30AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 12 2014, @07:30AM (#68005)

        No, it still sucks. API compatibility is there to embrace OpenSSL. Then comes the time to extend it with a proper API. Finally OpenSSL will be extinguished and salt sown all over its lands.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 12 2014, @11:56AM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday July 12 2014, @11:56AM (#68064) Journal

          No, it still sucks. API compatibility is there to embrace OpenSSL. Then comes the time to extend it with a proper API. Finally OpenSSL will be extinguished and salt sown all over its lands.

          Wait ... you're not speaking about Microsoft, are you? :-)

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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Monday July 14 2014, @02:03PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 14 2014, @02:03PM (#68911)

    Just read a good article about replacing openSSL with libreSSL: https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/851-LibreSSL-on-Gentoo.html [hboeck.de]
    Still not exactly aimed at Joe User but you could use this guys work to get libreSSL up. He also talks about various programs that had to be altered or tricked to work with the new ssl library.

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