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tomphoolery on April 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: "OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to...

> I also wonder how much in the end the big institutions care about this stuff.

Well, if they did care more, you'd see engineers from Intel, IBM, et. al., contributing to the project in droves like they do with the Linux kernel.

endeavor on April 9, 2014 | [–]

Chrome and Firefox both use NSS. I would assume that the big institutions looked at OpenSSL and decided their money would be better invested in other projects.

tankenmate on April 9, 2014 | [–]

Or maybe not after the current maintainers roll our their not so welcome mat.

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