Google Forks Open Source OpenSSL Web Security Code

Posted by Mcusanelli on Jun 24, 2014 5:21 AM CST
The VAR Guy; By Chris Tozzi
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Google's BoringSSL, a fork of the open source OpenSSL software for encrypting Web data, will spread the open source community's resources thinner.

In the wake of Heartbleed, there may soon be as many variants of the open source OpenSSL software for encrypting Web traffic as there are Pokemon characters—or something like that. A few days ago, Google (GOOG) became the latest organization to announce its own OpenSSL spin, which it's calling BoringSSL.

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