openssl vs. libressl

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I understand that libressl aims to be API-compatible with openssl so that
> it can act as a drop-in replacement. How far does that go, far enough that
> one can symlink the libssl and libcrypto runtimes from the one port to the
> shared libraries of the other, without having to rebuild dependents?


My understanding is that the API (i.e. source) compatibility is mostly
there but the A*B*I (binary) compatibility was a swing and a miss; assume
you have to rebuild stuff.

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