On 10/31/2017 08:23, Wall, Stephen wrote:
>> At least as about its first year and a half, LibreSSL had a markedly
>> better track record than OpenSSL (zero high-severity CVEs vs 5 from
>> OpenSSL, about half as many mid- and low-security CVEs).
> 
> Are any of these relevant to the crypto module?  Or are they all only 
> applicable to the SSL protocol?
> 
> As I understand the discussion so far, the goal is to unify all the disparate 
> crypto pieces in the base system.  That could certainly be done using 
> OpenSSLs libcrypto, and let users select their SSL provider from the ports 
> tree.

That's already how things work, but it doesn't provide a viable solution
for kernel and boot loader APIs.  There's apparently been at least one
attempt to embed OpenSSL into the kernel, to no avail.
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