Alpine Linux uses LibreSSL by default since October. https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/5463.html
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Quentin Rameau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:38:17 +0100 > Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 17:16:55 -0500 >> "S. Gilles" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> > On my Linux system (Gentoo), it's available as part of the libressl >> > package. It even seems to have manpages taken directly from >> > OpenBSD. >> >> I'm running Gentoo as well and should've given the libressl-ebuild >> more consideration. To be honest, making the switch from OpenSSL to >> LibreSSL is still non-trivial, but there is progress. >> >> I was wondering if it even works with OpenSSL. Looking at tls.c, it's >> using tls_internal.h, which makes me assume that it's closely bound to >> LibreSSL. I follow LibreSSL-development very closely and am shocked in >> what state the OpenSSL-codebase was/is. >> Every developer working on LibreSSL is doing god's work and for good >> reason more and more independent security researchers are sending >> their patches to the LibreSSL-team instead of the OpenSSL-team, whose >> sole purpose at the time when Heartbleed was discovered in 2014 >> seemed to be to give FIPS-seminars and raise funds. >> It speaks for itself that issues in their bugtracker were ignored; to >> the point, that the LibreSSL-devs went through it and applied the >> fixes themselves. Also take a look at the significant number of CVE's >> in the last years which LibreSSL wasn't affected by because they >> deployed good coding measures, removed cruft and generally put more >> trust in the underlying operating system to provide good random data, >> a good memory allocator and so on. >> >> What is truly remarkable is the fact that such a little team around >> Bob Beck was able to pull this off so efficiently. >> >> I wonder why there is not even more effort to adopt LibreSSL in the >> major Linux distributions. I think it's just a matter of time until we >> see the next major security hole in OpenSSL. >> >> Cheers >> >> Laslo >> > > Cool story, bro >
