LibreSSL

LibreSSL
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Original author(s)	The OpenSSL Project
Developer(s)	The OpenBSD Project
Initial release	2.0.0 / 11 July 2014
Stable release	3.9.2 / 12 May 2024
Preview release	3.9.0 (9 March 2024) [±]
Repository	github.com/libressl-portable/portable.git ;
Written in	C, assembly, Perl
Operating system	OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, macOS, Windows and others
Type	Cryptography library
License	Apache-1.0, BSD-4-Clause, ISC, public domain
Website	www.libressl.org

LibreSSL is an open-source implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The implementation is named after Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the deprecated predecessor of TLS, for which support was removed in release 2.3.0. The OpenBSD project forked LibreSSL from OpenSSL 1.0.1g in April 2014 as a response to the Heartbleed security vulnerability,^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] with the goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying development best practices.^[9]^[10]^[11]

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