[Info-vax] Open source usage, Was Python and various libraries updated

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-15 15:30:24 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:

> Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ...After HeartBleed, LibreSSL was started as a fork/rewrite of OpenSSL 
>> and *that* is where the VMS code was dropped. ...
> 
> Ahh, thank you!  That makes sense!  That wasn't what was announced 
> initially but things were a bit of a mess at the time.  I am glad to 
> hear of the split.

Having been through various app re-ports to OpenVMS, there've been some 
ports with a whole lot of OpenVMS code that's long been just extra 
baggage. Or porting for VAX. Etc.

LibreSSL sought to resolve memory management and other issues the BSD 
folks perceived in OpenSSL, and also then to provide a different and 
simpler interface with libtls.



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