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| 2021-01-05 |
Gentoo debates keeping LibreSSL support |
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About six years ago, in the wake of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, the OpenBSD project created its own fork of OpenSSL called LibreSSL. While OpenBSD has been successfully using LibreSSL since, the new cryptography library never really caught on in the Linux ecosystem. A few projects, like Gentoo supported LibreSSL as an option, but it looks like it will be phased out in favour of keeping OpenSSL. LWN reports: "Two distributions that did attempt to provide LibreSSL support were Alpine Linux and Gentoo. Alpine Linux supported LibreSSL as its primary TLS library for a while, but switched back to OpenSSL with the 3.9.0 release in January 2019. Gentoo never tried to switch over completely, but it supports LibreSSL as an alternative. That support will end in February, though. Gentoo developer Michał Górny first suggested this change at the end of December, saying that LibreSSL offers no benefit over OpenSSL at this point while imposing a lot of costs. In particular, he complained about the large number of packages that require patches to work with LibreSSL and the constant stream of regressions that the project must deal with." Further discussion on LibreSSL and the debate over whether to support it in Gentoo can be found in the LWN article. |
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