OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life

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  • s2n

    An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols

  • I think GnuTLS is probably the second most popular TLS library, after openssl.

    I'll also mentions s2n and rustls-ffi for completeness as C libraries, though the former isn't widely used, and the latter is very experimental still. https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls and https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi respectively.

  • void-packages

    The Void source packages collection

  • > but a year or 2 ago the went back to OpenSSL for some reason which I did not fully understand.

    That would be Void Linux [1]. One of the reasons iirc, is PEP 644 [2], in which CPython drops support for LibreSSL due to it not being fully compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.1 APIs.

    [1] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935

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  • libtls

    libtls tutorial, exercises, test CA and exercise solutions

  • Most applications switching to LibreSSL should seriously consider to go one step further and check if the libtls can replace their existing libssl usage: https://github.com/bob-beck/libtls/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md.

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