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by scrollaway 3837 days ago
> try to move forward with the correct acronym?

This won't happen as long as OpenSSL (or libressl) is popular.

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Luckily, libressl is being discontinued in favor of libtls, that has a saner interface. Or, better, if I understood the strategy correctly, libressl is being transformed into a wrapper of libtls, with frozen functionality until people stop using it.
libtls is part of libressl: http://www.libressl.org/

> LibreSSL is composed of four parts:

> The openssl(1) utility, which provides tools for managing keys, certificates, etc. > libcrypto: a library of cryptography fundamentals > libssl: a TLS library, backwards-compatible with OpenSSL > libtls: a new TLS library, designed to make it easier to write foolproof applications