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If I'm thinking of the same thing (and I believe I am), the vote actually happened a month or so ago. The original proposal was to give 500k euro to OpenSSL bu

If I'm thinking of the same thing (and I believe I am), the vote actually happened a month or so ago. The original proposal was to give 500k euro to OpenSSL but what actually was approved was to spread that out amongst OpenSSL, PolarSSL (which, I think, comes from .nl), and LibreSSL, in a manner that was not yet determined. Personally, I'd prefer to see the majority of it go to the guys working on LibreSSL simply because I think it would have the most impact there. I somewhat expect most of it go to OpenSSL, however, if for no other reason than it being the most widely used of the three.

praseodym 11y ago
Yes, the proposal was changed to spend the 500k EUR on open source encryption projects in general, to quote: "OpenSSL, LibreSSL, PolarSSL, etc." - no particular distribution of the money has been decided on as far as I can see. Source: http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/amendementen/detail?id=2015Z23825&did=2015D48058 http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/amendementen/detail?i...
lucb1e 11y ago
> the vote actually happened a month or so ago. Yup, I posted the result on HN but nobody cared at that point. I guess it wasn't quite concrete enough because the money would go to "undetermined open source projects that have to do with encryption, such as polarssl and openssl".