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>I am most sad about libressl, which is highly compatible with openssl yet profoundly better.

>but for unknown reasons this is yet to happen.

The reasons are very known. It's because libressl is not in fact "highly compatible with openssl."

Alpine: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3CCA%2BT2pCGFeh... (read the whole thread)

Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LibreSSL

OPNsense: https://old.reddit.com/r/OPNsenseFirewall/comments/t4e5cp/op...



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