Sorry I just saw this reply. I had a discussion with Thomas Pornin (the author of BearSSL) and my understanding that the choice of OO boils down to allowing eas

Sorry I just saw this reply. I had a discussion with Thomas Pornin (the author of BearSSL) and my understanding that the choice of OO boils down to allowing easy excising of code. So you can select exactly which implementations of algorithms you want in the final executable. Check out the cool size calculator: https://www.bearssl.org/sizes.html https://www.bearssl.org/sizes.html