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C2014–2023
libressl / portable

portable

LibreSSL Portable itself. This includes the build scaffold and compatibility layer that builds portable LibreSSL from the OpenBSD source code. Pull requests or patches sent to tech@openbsd.org are welcome.

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.5KGitHub stars
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LibreSSL Portable itself. This includes the build scaffold and compatibility layer that builds portable LibreSSL from the OpenBSD source code. Pull requests or patches sent to tech@openbsd.org are welcome.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-07-16 06:13:23 UTC to 2023-06-16 12:34:40 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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As others have mentioned, TLS 1.3 is not yet supported. But a little bit of context for that decision as of early last year. https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/228#iss... We will support 1.3 once the standard is firmed up and finalized (i.e. ceases to be coopted by vendors making changes to allow for people to continue to run moribund middle boxes that can't recognize a new protocol on the wire) Since there is effectively nothing wrong with TLS 1.2 with a sanely chosen cipher suite today, we believe a clean careful implementation is more beneficial than early adoption. So there's no rush on the part of the developers to support it. Skimming the commits on that git mirror we can see 1.3 related commits started hitting late last year.
In Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
I too would definitely be interested if there's any sort of milestone planned for X25519. There are a couple of open enhancement requests on it in both openbsd and portable [1,2] dating to before ratification of RFC 7748 (or Chrome 50), but no assignees yet. I also don't see any discussion on the libressl public mailing list archives at marc.info, though I'm not sure if that's complete. It seems like it may become an ever bigger breaking issue for a lot of folks as support becomes more widespread following standardization, inclusion in OpenSSL 1.1.0, and increasing major browser/OS support. 1. https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/114 2. https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/issues/58
In Alpine Edge has switched to libressl
Well, with updates to LibreSSL (2.1.7, 2.2.0) getting released today it looks like this has already been addressed. I can't find a decent link at the moment but according to an email I received a bit ago from owner-announce at openbsd.org 1788 is fixed in the above mentioned releases. Fixes for the following issues are integrated into LibreSSL 2.1.7 and LibreSSL 2.2.0: - CVE-2015-1788 - Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop - CVE-2015-1789 - Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time - CVE-2015-1792 - CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (this code is not enabled by default) Edit - The updates included are mentioned here: https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/blob/master/Ch...
In OpenSSL Security Advisory
I don't know too much about it but it's a LibreSSL compatibility feature to stay compatible with OpenSSL. Basically it's a mechanism for client software to fall back to reduced encryption when better options fail. Considering their stance on security I can see why the OpenBSD guys look at this as a bad idea. But on the other hand if they want people to adopt LibreSSL some "compatibility over maximum security" choices have to be made. More here... https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/36
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