As I was updating my security skills this week, I found that the
ssleay.org domain has become lost. Someone registered it a few weeks ago
and it now only contains banner ads and an ad for the domain company
userfriendly.com (apparently no relationship to the humorous
userfriendly.org, according to the latter's FAQ).
Many security sites and documents still point to ssleay.org, so
apparently its loss was not announced and expected in the security
community. I don't know who was in charge of it after the SSLeay
creators went to RSA Australia.
As any transition between providers would have been brief and the site
content should have reappeared quickly, it seems someone unknown to the
security community has grabbed that domain. It would be nice if someone
in the community who knows who the SSLeay.org webmaster was could
confirm if the new owner has any known security credentials.
There are quite a few security web sites that need to find out if their
links need updating.
