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Given how big the changes/cuts to OpenSSL so far this seems like a positive step towards making it a future credible alternative.

As for the vitriolic LibreSSL rhetoric. I for one hope that both projects continue to improve and thrive in the same way Chromium has since forking Webkit.

Not least because of the webs increasing dependence on TLS though changes like HTTP2/SPDY.

This was the strategy right from the start, as far as I read:

Step 1: simplify as much as possible, while only retaining OpenBSD compatibility to keep things easy.

Step 2: reintroduce portability to a more conservative set of OSes than OpenSSL.

Wasn't this planned from the start?

Lot of people made noise about it not being portable "right now" which to them meant "never". Someone had to explicitly say it was.

LibreSSL Will be Portable