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Re: LibreSSL

#11
post #5

Comic Sans? Really? Edit: To those downvoting, yes, I saw the footer. This doesn't excuse their childish behavior. I will not be donating to this project if this is the level of seriousness they have for it.

Read the fine print

> This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags

Re: LibreSSL

#12
post #5

Comic Sans? Really? Edit: To those downvoting, yes, I saw the footer. This doesn't excuse their childish behavior. I will not be donating to this project if this is the level of seriousness they have for it.

I was about to post the exact same question.

And if that's supposed to promote donations... (?!)

Ask yourself if a founder dresses as a clown to get funding.

Re: LibreSSL

#13
post #10

Somewhat ironic that https://www.libressl.org/ doesn't work, no?

Not really considering you have to buy certs if you want people to use your site, it doesn't have any sensitive data on it (not even source code or binaries), and they haven't finished cleaning it up to their standards yet.

Re: LibreSSL

#14

Since this is related. I have a question: How can they know that they have not broken something in their flensing without any automated testing since no tests is one of the big problems with OpenSSL?

I believe they are compiling the openbsd packages with it, so I guess it is a decent set to test against.

Re: LibreSSL

#18
It should rename to LibibreSSL instead, so that one can link the library with `-libressl`. Other than that, I appreciate this effort (no pun intended).

Re: LibreSSL

#19
I understand the point but this comes across as immature. OpenSSL has provided years of free software, supporting thousands of sites and applications.

Of course it has its problems, and there is nothing wrong with adding more competition in this space.

But what this space needs now, more than ever, is professionalism and pride in craft (by which I mean demonstrable unit test coverage, regression testing, fuzz testing and documentation) not silly music video jabs.

Re: LibreSSL

#20

Since this is related. I have a question: How can they know that they have not broken something in their flensing without any automated testing since no tests is one of the big problems with OpenSSL?

I believe they are compiling the openbsd packages with it, so I guess it is a decent set to test against.

Ah, so compile openbsd packages against it then run the tests for those packages.

Sort-of-integration testing. Gotchya

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