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LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by ams6110 »

TD-Linux wrote: post #18
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a shame there's not even a tiny bit of JS in the pages. Being able to press right or down to advance would be nice. Though I like how lightweight it all this. I suspect the software is old and the link hasn't been updated in its source.

Not only that, but the slides are JPG with horrible artifacts, and the text is JPG too, making it look bad and not be compatible with screen readers.

The software is meant to generate content for an X11 viewer/presentation app using a simple text-based markup as input.

The HTML is an export. It's not what the software was really designed to produce. That said, I don't know if the quality of the slides is really any better in the native viewer.

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by [deleted] »

TD-Linux wrote: post #18
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a shame there's not even a tiny bit of JS in the pages. Being able to press right or down to advance would be nice. Though I like how lightweight it all this. I suspect the software is old and the link hasn't been updated in its source.

Not only that, but the slides are JPG with horrible artifacts, and the text is JPG too, making it look bad and not be compatible with screen readers.

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Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by drivingmenuts »

krzrak wrote: post #11

OK, I don't get WTF is so funny with Comic Sans?

When Comic Sans was first introduced, it got overused and quickly became an eyesore that nevertheless, still got overused, despite the bitching about it.

Now we just kind of bitch about it because we've always bitched about it. Someday, your grandchildren might bitch about it, too, but they probably won't really care.

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by Dylan16807 »

ams6110 wrote: post #21
TD-Linux wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only that, but the slides are JPG with horrible artifacts, and the text is JPG too, making it look bad and not be compatible with screen readers.

The software is meant to generate content for an X11 viewer/presentation app using a simple text-based markup as input. The HTML is an export. It's not what the software was really designed to produce. That said, I don't know if the quality of the slides is really any better in the native viewer.

That's not really an excuse for using jpg instead of png for a bunch of text.

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

#25

Post by mk3 »

Shouldn't it say LibreSSL - An OpenSSL fork :)? Seems cool that we kinda have a choice, and do not need to depend on one OpenSource project to have SSL, on other hand it seems it will be another underfunded project, waiting for another heartbleed to happen. :)

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by J_Darnley »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8
ams6110 wrote: post #7

The software used to create this is MagicPoint. The link in the slides is wrong, currently the website is http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/

It's a shame there's not even a tiny bit of JS in the pages. Being able to press right or down to advance would be nice. Though I like how lightweight it all this. I suspect the software is old and the link hasn't been updated in its source.

Thank god that javascript isn't required! An enhancement of allowing the user to use javascript to navigate to the next page is a nice extra.

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by jacquesm »

mk3 wrote: post #25

Shouldn't it say LibreSSL - An OpenSSL fork :)? Seems cool that we kinda have a choice, and do not need to depend on one OpenSource project to have SSL, on other hand it seems it will be another underfunded project, waiting for another heartbleed to happen. :)

On the positive side, and assuming sufficient divergence by then, at least that will only affect about half of the ssl web instead of nearly all of it.

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by amix »

This presentation is tasteless and totally takes any seriousness that should be related to making and promoting an OpenSSL replacement. I personally can't take it seriously and I would recommend hackers to think about what image their presentation and design conveys.

Re: LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

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Post by dtech »

mk3 wrote: post #25

Shouldn't it say LibreSSL - An OpenSSL fork :)? Seems cool that we kinda have a choice, and do not need to depend on one OpenSource project to have SSL, on other hand it seems it will be another underfunded project, waiting for another heartbleed to happen. :)

They're aiming at binary compatibility, as such it is a replacement (but also a fork). Similar to MariaDB v.s. MySQL.

Fork and replacement are not mutually exclusive. In fact I'd think that often forks start with the intention to provide a replacement.

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