First Release of LibreSSL Portable Is Available 101
ConstantineM writes: It has finally happened. Bob Beck of The OpenBSD Foundation has just announced that the first release of LibreSSL portable is now available, and can be found in the LibreSSL directory of your favourite OpenBSD mirror. libressl-2.0.0.tar.gz has been tested to build on various versions of Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. This is intended to be an initial portable release of OpenBSD's libressl to allow the community to start using it and providing feedback, and has been done to address the issue of incorrect portable versions being attempted by third-parties. Support for additional platforms will be added as time and resources permit.
Donate (Score:2, Informative)
Through my student years I was very much supported by donations.
The LibReSSL effort was the first time I donated ever. So FFS donate, it is that kind of asshole attitude that produces good code, so support it.
Re:Happy to let someone else test it (Score:5, Informative)
There is not just ''cruft'' in the code base: if I remember correctly, they removed thousands upon thousands of lines of code from OpenSSL - think VMS, Borland C, Windows 3.x, MS Visual C++ (etc) support.
And they tested the whole thing on the OpenBSD ports - so far, nothing has been broken.
Oh and FIPS support? Not gonna happen. Bob Beck has been very very clear on that subject. OpenBSD does not care too much about US government standard.
Re:Happy to let someone else test it (Score:0, Informative)
Unless you are using 15+ year old C compilers, unsupported and dead OSes or want to use insecure ciphers and hash routines, you're not gonna miss the cruft.
Re:Happy to let someone else test it (Score:4, Informative)
Also works fine under NetBSD (Score:3, Informative)
Test suite summary for libressl 2.0.0
'make check' under -current amd64:
TOTAL: 41
PASS: 41
SKIP: 0
XFAIL: 0
FAIL: 0
XPASS: 0
ERROR: 0