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by riffraff 3778 days ago
but otoh, if you try to reinvent something instead of using a tried & true library, you might as well just add new bugs.

I.e. I'd 100% use libxml to sanitize xml rather than trying and reimplementing xml parsing myself.

As always, trade offs.

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Yep.

OpenSSL has major security issues encountered on a relatively regular basis.

Do not do your users the disservice of rolling your own SSL implementation. ;)