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Old 15th April 2014
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Default Please Put OpenSSL Out of Its Misery

From http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2602816 an analysis by FreeBSD and Varnish developer Poul-Henning Kamp:

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OpenSSL must die, for it will never get any better.

Poul-Henning Kamp

The OpenSSL software package is around 300,000 lines of code, which means there are probably around 299 bugs still there, now that the Heartbleed bug — which allowed pretty much anybody to retrieve internal state to which they should normally not have access — has been fixed.
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