OpenSSL Security Advisory [7th February 2023]

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • aws-lc

    AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by the AWS Cryptography team for AWS and their customers. It іs based on code from the Google BoringSSL project and the OpenSSL project.

    I love LibreSSL and what they represent, but neither LibreSSL nor BoringSSL target all platforms or compatibility with OpenSSL, which can be a bit of a challenge ... and I don't think LibreSSL is likely to have FIPS certification.

    At the AWS cryptography group, we've open-sourced our libcrypto - https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lc - which essentially tries to use the best from Google's BoringSSL, OpenSSL (from 1.1x , not 3.x) , our own code, and formal verification and does target a broad set of platforms and is our FIPS module.

    We're at about 95% OpenSSL compatibility right now, it "just works" for a lot of applications, and I expect we'll get near-full compatibility this year as we switch more and more of our own systems to using it internally.

    We don't promote it broadly, and it's not intended to compete with OpenSSL - but it's a may be an interesting option for some to consider.

  • rustls

    A modern TLS library in Rust

    A reminder that rustls exists, and leverages the Rust compiler to make sure no memory safety issues exist in your TLS implementation:

    https://github.com/rustls/rustls

    Some thoughts on lessons learned from other projects/vulnerabilities:

    https://docs.rs/rustls/latest/rustls/manual/index.html

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  • OpenSSL

    TLS/SSL and crypto library

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