Should people outside google pay attention to boringssl? The first thing it says on the website is:
"Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don’t recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability." On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> wrote: > Don't forget BoringSSL. > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:30 AM Michael Felt <mamf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can look at it. There has been a lot of discussion, iirc, between OpenSSL >> and LibreSSL re: version identification. >> Thx for the reference. >> >> >> On 08-Mar-16 14:55, Hasan Diwan wrote: >> >> >> On 8 March 2016 at 00:49, Michael Felt <mich...@felt.demon.nl> wrote: >>> >>> As a relative newcomer I may have missed a long previous discussion re: >>> linking with OpenSSL and/or LibreSSL. >>> In an ideal world this would be rtl linking, i.e., underlying >>> complexities of *SSL libraries are hidden from applications. >>> >>> In short, when I saw this http://bugs.python.org/issue26465 Title: >>> Upgrade OpenSSL shipped with python installers, it reminded me I need to >>> start looking at LibreSSL again - and that, if not already done - might be >>> something "secure" for python as well. >> >> >> According to the libressl website, one of the projects primary goals is to >> remain "backwards-compatible with OpenSSL", which is to say, to either have >> code work without changes or to fail gracefully when it uses the deprecated >> bits. It does seem it ships with OpenBSD. There is an issue open on bugs to >> address whatever incompatibilities remain between LibreSSL and OpenSSL[1]. >> Perhaps you might want to take a look at that? -- H >> 1. https://bugs.python.org/issue23177 >>> >>> >>> Michael >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Python-Dev mailing list >>> Python-Dev@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >>> Unsubscribe: >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/hasan.diwan%40gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> OpenPGP: http://hasan.d8u.us/gpg.asc >> Sent from my mobile device >> Envoyé de mon portable >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/greg%40krypto.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/njs%40pobox.com > -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
