On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 23:26 +0100, m1027 wrote: > I've been kindly asked by a gentoo dev to send my two pence in here: > > peter: > > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > LibreSSL users, does LibreSSL today have any benefit over > > > OpenSSL? > > > > Yes, at least two: > > > > [...] > > > > B. It brings its own TLS API, a unique feature which by itself > > warrants > > the package. > > Yeah, since openssl and libressl cannot be installed at the same > time, I wonder what will be the future of libtls? To recall, it is > a "a new TLS library, designed to make it easier to write foolproof > applications" (see libressl.org). I've been using it for some time. > It's great, and it is part of libressl.
As noted in another fork of this thread, libtls is now provided by dev-libs/libretls which works against OpenSSL. > Another thing: Besides libressl there are boringssl and others. Even > if still not the case (?), having virtual alternatives should in > theory help keeping polished interfaces. If for whatever reason this > not the case in practise, I believe dropping the alternatives should > be worse. I don't think these alternatives were ever meant to be used system- wide. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
