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by weland 4110 days ago
A good portion of LibreSSL's patches are in the form of removing code for dead platforms like VAX/VMS and OS/2, problematic wrappers like openssl_malloc() or patching the everything-on-by-default approach that OpenSSL takes. The OpenSSL team actively refuses any such patches, which is why LibreSSL was forked in the first place.