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Mirror of BoringSSL

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2016-07-07 · latest 2026-04-15

Mentions per year 8 mentions · busiest year 2016 (3)
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  1. …difficult to use if you aren't using c/c++ or rust. (The same is largely true of boringssl). [1]: https://github.com/google/boringssl?tab=readme-ov-file#borin...
    comment by thayne · 2026-04-15 · in OpenSSL 4.0.0
  2. They did: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc / https://github.com/google/boringssl (Not in rust, but it's mostly assembly anyways so I'm not sure rust provides much. There is https://github.com/briansmith/ring in rust, not sure if it's…
  3. Not to the same degree. See: https://github.com/google/boringssl/commit/c7a3c46574e7fc323... In particular: " In OpenSSL, this loop resulted in a DoS vulnerability, CVE-2022-0778. BoringSSL is mostly unaffected by this. In particular, this…
  4. …to Musk's brand is intentional. It's more likely that it's a reference/homage to BoringSSL ( https://github.com/google/boringssl ) and "boring tech" in general that is purposefully designed to be minimalist, simple to use, and narrow in…
    comment by bityard · 2021-08-23 · in Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode
  5. https://github.com/google/boringssl/commit/e25775bcacb120f7f... seems to be the code, as agl described.
  6. and also https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/crypto/newho...
  7. https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/include/open...