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Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

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Re: Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

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> And by widely leveraged, I mean almost completely ubiquitous, if you’re using HTTPS, chances are you’re using OpenSSL. Almost everyone is.

This is probably a bit of an exaggeration. There are quite a few other SSL implementations that actually are also "widely leveraged"[1]. In particular, LibreSSL was forked and cleaned up after Heartbleed. Google uses BoringSSL. GnuTLS is widely used and unrelated to OpenSSL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementati...

Re: Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

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Get started then. We can't use something with no track record nor releases published in production systems.

Then rewrite in Ada or whatever.

Ada has been around for a while and has been used in important projects.

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