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author | Theo Buehler <tb@openbsd.org> | 2023-05-10 07:05:47 -0600 |
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committer | Theo Buehler <tb@openbsd.org> | 2023-05-10 07:05:47 -0600 |
commit | c450eaff50ad806322de5c91c246ede3eace02a3 (patch) | |
tree | eea6dcdb3c1b62f1d69a43c9a589dd6edded82bf | |
parent | 07f8b2f6c9a14b4644660abbf9b559fff285420a (diff) | |
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Modernize the compat with OpenSSL paragraph a bit
This is a bit vague and may leave a lot of room for improvement,
but it's at least not factually incorrect.
ok joshua jsing
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@@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ improve security, and apply best practice development processes from OpenBSD. | |||
14 | 14 | ||
15 | ## Compatibility with OpenSSL: ## | 15 | ## Compatibility with OpenSSL: ## |
16 | 16 | ||
17 | LibreSSL is API compatible with OpenSSL 1.0.1, but does not yet include all | 17 | LibreSSL provides much of the OpenSSL 1.1 API. The OpenSSL 3 API is not currently |
18 | new APIs from OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later. LibreSSL also includes APIs not yet | 18 | supported. Incompatibilities between the projects exist and are unavoidable since |
19 | present in OpenSSL. The current common API subset is OpenSSL 1.0.1. | 19 | both evolve with different goals and priorities. Important incompatibilities will |
20 | be addressed if possible and as long as they are not too detrimental to LibreSSL's | ||
21 | goals of simplicity, security and sanity. We do not add new features, ciphers and | ||
22 | API without a solid reason and require that new code be clean and of high quality. | ||
20 | 23 | ||
21 | LibreSSL is not ABI compatible with any release of OpenSSL, or necessarily | 24 | LibreSSL is not ABI compatible with any release of OpenSSL, or necessarily |
22 | earlier releases of LibreSSL. You will need to relink your programs to | 25 | earlier releases of LibreSSL. You will need to relink your programs to |