LibreSSL languishes on Linux
LibreSSL languishes on Linux
Posted Jan 7, 2021 11:49 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403)In reply to: LibreSSL languishes on Linux by Karellen
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After one-too-many pranks, the latter was quickly replaced by custom scripts calling xauth and copying over magic cookies to remote systems.
As network sniffing increased, people started to worry about security. Fortunately ssh (incl. -X) arrived, making most of the above issues moot.
But the WWW was still (mostly) limited to plain HTTP...
Posted Jan 7, 2021 13:15 UTC (Thu)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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Don't forget that at the time, there were some very real legal issues with respect to strong encryption.
Posted Jan 7, 2021 13:20 UTC (Thu)
by geert (subscriber, #98403)
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LibreSSL languishes on Linux
LibreSSL languishes on Linux