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Old 22nd June 2014
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Default Bored yet? Now there's ANOTHER OpenSSL fork – it's from Google

Because Heartbleed is the gift that keeps on giving

The Register, 21 June 2014

With developers still struggling to plug vulnerabilities in the open source OpenSSL crypto library, Google has spun off a new fork of the project based on its own, internal work with the code, dubbed BoringSSL...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/21/boringssl/
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Old 22nd June 2014
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Google has spun off a new fork of the project based on its own, internal work with the code, dubbed BoringSSL...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/21/boringssl/
Interested readers may also want to peruse some of the traffic posted about BoringSSL on OpenBSD's misc@ & tech@ mailing lists made in the last few days:
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Old 23rd June 2014
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So BoringSSL it isn't supposed to be project for general use case but only for internal use in Google and probably other very similar use cases (the same applications, versions)?
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