Early Review of LibreSSL Finds Problematic PRNG

When the OpenBSD foundation sent LibreSSL out the door last weekend, it was with the full intention of getting some feedback and scrutiny in return, all in the name of making the crypto library stable and secure. What they likely didn’t expect were claims surfacing that LibreSSL shared some of th...

LibreSSL Portable Fork Of OpenSSL Released

After months of code cleanup and rewriting, the OpenBSD Foundation this weekend sent LibreSSL out the door. The slimmed down OpenSSL fork works on a number of platforms beyond OpenBSD, including several Linux flavors, Solaris, Mac OS X and Free BSD. “I firmly believe that LibreSSL is in a better...

Google Announces its BoringSSL OpenSSL Fork

In the year-plus since surveillance, privacy and Snowden became part of the daily security conversation, technologies that safeguard online communication and commerce have become Job 1 for experts anxious to plug gaping flaws and shore up other usability deficiencies. OpenSSL is probably at the t...

Google Unveils BoringSSL, Another Flavor of OpenSSL

The open source encryption protocol, OpenSSL, which is used by several social networks, search engines, banks and other websites to enable secure connections while transmitting data, came to everybody's attention following the Heartbleed vulnerability, a critical bug in the OpenSSL's implementati...

OpenBSD Initiates Fork of OpenSSL, LibreSSL

Heartbleed may have been the final straw, but the movement to create a fork of OpenSSL called LibreSSL had its roots in another issue that made the crypto libraries untenable for folks at OpenBSD. LibreSSL is an initiative spurred on by OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt to split off and develop a...