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>Only after massive security vulnerabilties and a lot of media attention more people looked at OpenSSL in detail and eventually decided to do something about it. Which mostly was "let's write a new library or fork it". Thus, LibreSSL, sodium, nacl and such.

Right, but those vulnerabilities _were_ found. I worry that they wouldn't be found in this. The only people who'd go looking are the people who see that a specific website is using it and want to exploit it.



That would only be true if those vulnerabilties occured because someone found a bug in the source code. Given the horrible mess the openssl code is said to be, i'd argue that most vulnerabilties were found without source.




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