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I assume it will be more of a "clean it up" rather than "nuke it" approach, plus there's a lot more money involved.

Starting over on OpenSSL would cost about 20 mega USD, so that's unlikely.

Currently, Ohloh esimates $6.7 mega USD in code cost, but figure 3x for a crypto lib due to inherent challenges of correctness. [0]

[0] https://www.ohloh.net/p/openssl/estimated_cost

When I said "nuke it", I was more referring to the current practice of slashing and burning build support and modifications necessary to allow the library to build on anything but the most popular handful of platforms.

The glee with which this is being done (looking at the commits) is palpable.

Ahhh. Yup, I just lightly-forked LibreSSL to bring back some build infrastructure to non-OpenBSD platforms. It's easy for folks to get get carried away, and there will probably be some quiet backpedaling.

https://github.com/steakknife/libressl

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