[Cerowrt-devel] core infrastructure initiative

[Cerowrt-devel] core infrastructure initiative

[Dave Taht]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-giants-chastened-by-heartbleed-finally-agree-to-fund-openssl/

The initiative came together quickly once the foundation began
approaching the companies involved. “Before I could even get my last
word out most folks were like, ‘absolutely,’” Zemlin said. “We should
have done this three years ago to be honest.”

well, yea.


-- 
Dave Täht

NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] core infrastructure initiative

[Rich Brown]

See also the LibreSSL effort, where they're hacking and slashing out ("flensing" - look it up) all the old cruft from OpenSSL to produce something less byzantine, more maintanable:

- http://www.libressl.org/ - their main site
- http://richb-hanover.com/libressl-fork-of-openssl/ - an excerpt of some snarky checkin comments from the effort above...

Rich

On Apr 24, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-giants-chastened-by-heartbleed-finally-agree-to-fund-openssl/
> 
> The initiative came together quickly once the foundation began
> approaching the companies involved. “Before I could even get my last
> word out most folks were like, ‘absolutely,’” Zemlin said. “We should
> have done this three years ago to be honest.”
> 
> well, yea.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Täht
> 
> NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article
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