Open Source Security

By Josh Bressers

OpenSSL is the new lead paint

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Published November 06, 2022 6:00pm

Josh and Kurt talk about the recent OpenSSL nothingburger. OpenSSL got everyone whipped into a frenzy over a critical vulnerability, then changed the severity to high. The correct solution to this whole problem is to stop using a TLS library written in C, we need to be using memory safe languages. Don't migrate from OpenSSL 1 to 3, migrate from OpenSSL 1 to Rustls. Show Notes OpenSSL Blog Post OpenSSL pre-announcement Mark Cox Tweet 3.0 only affected GossiTheDog NDA Tweet Claims of a name and logo Rustls

 

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