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Is this fork a vote of no confidence in the OpenSSL team? Is it guaranteed that this fork will be used in OpenBSD? Could this fork be used in Linux? Will they b

• zdw 13y ago
  Traditionally, OpenBSD has made "Portable" versions of their code available for integration on other systems - for example: http://www.openssh.com/portable.html http://www.openssh.com/portable.html Basically, that's the version that gets those sorts of patches. I'd imagine if this reaches the point where people want to put the OpenBSD fork of OpenSSL on other platforms, a similar approach would be used. It's been pretty successful for OpenSSH: http://www.openssh.com/usage/graphs.html http://www.openssh.com/usage/graphs.html
• colechristensen 13y ago
  Nearly every operating system distribution maintains it's own fork of most system utilities and libraries with varying levels of divergence from upstream. A piece of recent news around here was Python 2.7 being maintained by RedHat for several years beyond upstream support. Some of the differences make it upstream, some of them don't. Doubtful OpenBSD is trying to usurp the current OpenSSL team, but if they do good quality work, it might be very influential a few years down the road.
• copergi 13y ago
  >Is it guaranteed that this fork will be used in OpenBSD? It already is used in OpenBSD. The changes are being made in the OpenBSD source tree.
  • imthatguyama 13y ago
    As a Linux fan who has been hearing good things about FreeBSD, will this work out of the box on FreeBSD?
    • copergi 13y ago
      I think it will require a bit of tweaking, but I would expect the other BSDs to adopt it once it is reasonably complete.