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You mean UKUSA? Echelon? Patriot Act? SSL and encryption 'bans' making the vendors get OpenSSL from the Canadian OpenBSD?
by anthk 2y ago
You mean UKUSA? Echelon? Patriot Act? SSL and encryption 'bans' making the vendors get OpenSSL from the Canadian OpenBSD?
- mrweasel 2y agoOpenSSL = OpenSSL Software Foundation Inc / OpenSSL Software Services Inc (In the US) OpenSSH = OpenBSD (In Canada). OpenBSD does maintain a fork of OpenSSL, called LibreSSL.
- anthk 2y agoOpenBSD had a SSL stack too, not bound to US licenses and restrictions on exporting.
- mrweasel 2y agoBefore the LibreSSL fork? I did not know that. They've shipped OpenSSL for as long as I can remember, and then forked it, in 2014. How long ago was that?
- anthk 2y agoOpenSSL built on Canada was fine. Get NetBSD from US mirrors and you got a TLS-challenged OS until the 00's when the restriction exports on tech 'as weapons' were nonsense.