[danrik]

Speaking as someone who spends a big chunk of his working life auditing others code, having a consistent style makes it a lot easier to spot problems.

[jgrahamc]

But isn't what's happening here a change to the coding style to match the style used by BSD? That might be fun for BSD coders, but is that actually helping improve the OpenSSL code?

[gkya]

Well, that'd be useless to move from tabs to spaces or from n spaces to m spaces in this context, but as far as I've observed, OpenSSL codebase uses the unconventional Whitesmiths style [1][2][3], which might be a burden on the developers to navigate.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style

[2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/cry...

[3] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/cry...

edit: formatting

[mfwoods]

I don't think they intend to contribute back to the original OpenSSL code base, but see this as a OpenBSD only fork.

[clarry]

It might not help upstream OpenSSL, unless they keep an eye out for the bug fixes. Consider OpenBSD the upstream for this new fork.

[feld]

man style

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0...