From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 02:40:14 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D46A8EF for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com (mail-pd0-f172.google.com [209.85.192.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E2D91FF3 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id w10so2600870pde.3 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:40:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to; bh=e7qsN8x374OqlIPKhR81coOkgKA0AePNsfKa8IaPmYQ=; b=YICFC0DlSZjLiayo4GT6v/Pk8f8lSOTLGrRaz6pRKxeEU7V7Y7m2vbIVezASOY4LO2 7C/ZSgfsygQXM6ProneTk0lqN+KjQp0e9iswx6eWnRhfHxNmZUCDqpbeOSuR/9bCfRYa aIpe35scM061KtuT/BljBJOqc7659k3SATZ+No3/YxFFwiHYCjjRgpQ9fbO5Uy4fo9i1 zjlCMj8FQ2edU3ZrC5/QcWva/hcl8MONxG1KpGURyqGTMn5HInJIo2xHldQg99ytIOFO +63JPoUa8PrZSUibuV6Sflyr7ahidvaAxoR4x+vBZgRb0Bre0wK24qRxmT6tOOHwfisp IoTQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnGvK/joJndepqcp0YmC3SUuQTnYGF8ApmxmdybedQs9s/V7T6Rtjcd8NNWyzzi35PWJ+Ty X-Received: by 10.67.15.42 with SMTP id fl10mr4510348pad.30.1398393244647; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lglt-nvaradarajan.corp.netflix.com (dc1-prod.netflix.com. [69.53.236.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ei4sm12175458pbb.42.2014.04.24.19.34.03 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh X-Google-Original-From: Warner Losh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. LibreSSL (OpenBSD) From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <23CF0EE3-3387-47C7-9DCE-61F20D87E8D9@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:34:02 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20140424223540.627bf130.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <23CF0EE3-3387-47C7-9DCE-61F20D87E8D9@FreeBSD.org> To: Dimitry Andric X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT , "O. Hartmann" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:40:14 -0000 On Apr 24, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 24 Apr 2014, at 22:35, O. Hartmann = wrote: >> It seems that OpenBSD is now forking their own SSL implementation, = called LibreSSL. As >> OpenBSD speaks for many similar opinion regarding the state of the = code of OpenSSL, I'd >> like to hear what the plans are in FreeBSD for this critical portion = of software. >>=20 >> Is FreeBSD going to support the effords taken by OpenBSD and = participating in the >> LibreSSL development (http://www.libressl.org/)? >=20 > Wouldn't it be wiser to wait and see what comes out of this project? = :) > Besides, they're first making it for OpenBSD only (which is completely > reasonable), porting it will come even later. >=20 > If you want to contribute to LibreSSL now, I think the best you can do > is to donate money. They don't seem to need more programmers... :) Well, need and want are two different things. So far all I=92ve seen is = a lot of trash talk and no track record. It would wiser, as you suggest, to wait and see = where they wind up. Warner