GnuTLS VS OpenSSL

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OpenSSL

• Heartbleed and XZ Backdoor Learnings: Open Source Infrastructure Can Be Improved Efficiently With Moderate Funding
  2 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2024

  Today, April 7th, 2024, marks the 10-year anniversary since CVE-2014-0160 was published. This security vulnerability known as "Heartbleed" was a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptography software, the most popular option to implement Transport Layer Security (TLS). In more layman's terms, if you type https:// in your browser address bar, chances are high that you are interacting with OpenSSL.

• Ask HN: How does the xz backdoor replace RSA_public_decrypt?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024

  At this point I pretty much understand the entire process on how the xz backdoor came to be: its execution stages, extraction from binary "test" files etc. But one thing puzzles me: how can the ifunc mechanism be used to replace something like RSA_public_decrypt? Granted this probably stems from my lack of understanding of ifunc, but I was under the impression that in order for the ifunc mechanism to work in your code, you have to explicitly mark specific function with multiple implementations with __attribute__ ((ifunc ("the_resolver_function"))). Looking at the source code of the RSA function in question, ifunc attribute isn't present:

  https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/rsa/rsa_crpt.c#L51

  So how does the backdoor actually replace the call? Does this means that the ifunc mechanism can be used to override pretty much anything on the system?

• Use of HTTPS Resource Records
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024

  OpenSSL and Go crypt/tls has no support yet, so none of the webservers that depend on them support it. Apache, Nginx, and Caddy, they all need upstream ECH support first.

  - https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482

  - https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22938

  - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63369

• openssl-3.2.0 released
  1 project | /r/linux | 25 Nov 2023
• Large performance degradation in OpenSSL 3
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
• OpenSSL 3.2 Alpha 2
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2023
• Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023

  If I'm understanding the draft correctly, I think the webserver you're hosting your sites on would need it implemented as it requires private keys and ECH configuration. In the example of nginx since it uses openssl, openssl would need to implement it. I found an issue on their Github but it's still open: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482

• eBPF Practical Tutorial: Capturing SSL/TLS Plain Text Data Using uprobe
  3 projects | dev.to | 19 Sep 2023
• OpenSSL Versions... whats the plan here
  1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 19 Aug 2023

  I confirmed that the systm was on 1.1.1f with openssl version command. Hmm...... I check the openssl version in the repo with apt list... LOL package names wernt helpful. finally went to the repo pages and found that its still on 1.1.1f, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl. Meenwhile I looked up the version history on https://www.openssl.org/ and saw that 1.1.1v was released at the beginning of this month... ok. I can understand it it was out less then 30 days. I looked up when f came out, end of MARCH 2020. NEARLY 3-1/2 YEARS

• I am looking for a troubled/bad open source codebase
  13 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 12 Jul 2023