libressl vs openssl

Jan Stary hans at stare.cz
Wed Jan 10 20:49:54 UTC 2018


On Jan 09 09:40:23, blair at orcaware.com wrote:
> https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/
> 
> "Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.”
> 
> If projects link statically against an SSL library, then BoringSSL maybe fine, but probably not as a shared library used by many packages.

As opposed to a static library used by many packages?



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