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Anonymous on 2014-07-15 at 12:21:

They haven't indicated that a lot of work is required to port LibreSSL to Linux. Most of the secure functions are actually pretty easy; they're entirely implemented in userspace and don't rely on any system specific or third party functionality. So it is a matter of bundling a copy of these functions with the portable distribution, and adding the appropriate checks in the configure system.

But you cannot get around the fact that Linux does not provide a reliable library-wrappable way to get entropy, except for the sysctl which is apparently deprecated. So they try do what they can. Is it good enough? Hard to say, but as it cannot really be worse than what OpenSSL did (if we for a moment ignore the bug with pid based fork checking).

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