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Developers at FAANG making half a million a yer, yet they can't invest in the most critical library they use...

• azinman2 4y ago
  Who uses it? Apple and Microsoft have their own crypto libs, Google forked and created their own… not sure about the others.
  • mschuster91 4y ago
    Literally everyone running a Linux server uses OpenSSL under the hood as soon as HTTPS is in play. Apache, nginx, haproxy, lighttpd, nodejs, .NET - they all use openssl. IIRC the only stacks that do not rely on OpenSSL to provide SSL on the server side without resorting to a frontend loadbalancer/proxy are Go and Java. That is why OpenSSL is so extremely important, and I seriously wonder why the industry bigwigs haven't stepped up and created a foundation/trust flush with cash to make sure that continuous development of these libraries, regular audits, certifications and testing is paid for. Out of the big names in tech, I think the only people not depending on Linux at all is Netflix, they're famous for running a massive FreeBSD shop (but that doesn't mean they're not using OpenSSL in their application infrastructure, never read anything about that side of their business). Not sure about Google, they do a lot of yak shaving and reinventing wheels. MS and Amazon run Linux as part of their clouds at the very least.