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Who uses it? Apple and Microsoft have their own crypto libs, Google forked and created their own… not sure about the others.
by 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 agoLiterally 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.