I believe so. OpenSSL had a whole swath of other issues that contributed to its problems, but chief among them was a habit of implementing core functionality al

I believe so. OpenSSL had a whole swath of other issues that contributed to its problems, but chief among them was a habit of implementing core functionality already provided by the OS. Also, as mentioned, the constantly lengthening codebase made checking for such issues difficult. OpenBSD folks have worked hard to make their functions safe and it would be a shame if a duplicate function led to a vulnerability that didn't exist in the core.