• oDDmON@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    TL;DR? > The problem is strictly speaking not even in curl code. It comes with the version of LibreSSL that Apple ships and builds curl to use on their platforms.

    But because they’re Apple (right next to the Pope, for infallibility), they know best; same old story, rinse’n’repeat.

    Really liked their stuff back in the day. Now? It’s another walled garden they scrabble to maintain.

  • Mac@federation.red
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    8 months ago

    LibreSSL is the fucking bane of my existence at work. So many issues caused by the keys it spits out vs others.

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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      8 months ago

      Never had the chance to seriously look into libressl. Do you think it would work fine if most of the world was running it rather than openssl?

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        8 months ago

        Probably so, but Apple is the only one I’ve encountered actually using it. The whole point is it’s supposed to be backwards compatible and it’s just not

  • 0x0@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    You can follow curl’s lead developer on mastodon: @bagder@mastodon.social, seems like a very reasonable guy.