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by ctz 682 days ago
> Why it’s not removed: backward compatibility I bet.

I mean, in the intervening period there was OpenSSL 3 which was a large backwards-incompatible (API and ABI) release, with a huge amount of effort on the part of OpenSSL developers and users to follow along. It was the ideal opportunity to drop this sort of old stuff.