Alpine Linux uses LibreSSL by default since October.
https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/5463.html
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Quentin Rameau <quinq_AT_fifth.space> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:38:17 +0100
> Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 17:16:55 -0500
>> "S. Gilles" <sgilles_AT_math.umd.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> > On my Linux system (Gentoo), it's available as part of the libressl
>> > package. It even seems to have manpages taken directly from
>> > OpenBSD.
>>
>> I'm running Gentoo as well and should've given the libressl-ebuild
>> more consideration. To be honest, making the switch from OpenSSL to
>> LibreSSL is still non-trivial, but there is progress.
>>
>> I was wondering if it even works with OpenSSL. Looking at tls.c, it's
>> using tls_internal.h, which makes me assume that it's closely bound to
>> LibreSSL. I follow LibreSSL-development very closely and am shocked in
>> what state the OpenSSL-codebase was/is.
>> Every developer working on LibreSSL is doing god's work and for good
>> reason more and more independent security researchers are sending
>> their patches to the LibreSSL-team instead of the OpenSSL-team, whose
>> sole purpose at the time when Heartbleed was discovered in 2014
>> seemed to be to give FIPS-seminars and raise funds.
>> It speaks for itself that issues in their bugtracker were ignored; to
>> the point, that the LibreSSL-devs went through it and applied the
>> fixes themselves. Also take a look at the significant number of CVE's
>> in the last years which LibreSSL wasn't affected by because they
>> deployed good coding measures, removed cruft and generally put more
>> trust in the underlying operating system to provide good random data,
>> a good memory allocator and so on.
>>
>> What is truly remarkable is the fact that such a little team around
>> Bob Beck was able to pull this off so efficiently.
>>
>> I wonder why there is not even more effort to adopt LibreSSL in the
>> major Linux distributions. I think it's just a matter of time until we
>> see the next major security hole in OpenSSL.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Laslo
>>
>
> Cool story, bro
>
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