openssl and openssh

[Christopher Vance]

OpenSSH is developed on OpenBSD, as are lots of other Open* things.

OpenSSL is not one of these - it has always been a separate project.

-- Christopher

On 17 March 2012 04:11, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 13:04, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 15 22:21:12, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>> > OpenSSL as a project desperately needs to be replaced with something
>> > sane.
>>
>> Replaced where? OpenSSL and OpenSSH are both intimately related to (and
>> developed on) OpenBSD; there is no way they will 'replace' it with some
>> other implementation.
>
>
> Exactly.  So we're forever stuck with software that does not follow sane
> versioning, and because it's security software its developers more or less
> have the entire open source community over a barrel while they change things
> in ways that regularly cause breakage for everyone else.  After all, *they*
> don't need to care; it works for them, we're (the entire open source
> community!) unwanted hangers-on.