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title: "Using BoringSSL"
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date: 2022-10-30T13:10:29-07:00
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lastMod: 2023-05-27T03:57:41Z
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replyURI: "https://lobste.rs/s/9eas9d/you_should_prepare_for_openssl_3_x_secvuln#c_sk5f3v"
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replyTitle: "“BoringSSL…is not intended for general use”"
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replyType: "Comment"
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replyAuthor: "AJ Jordan"
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replyAuthorURI: "https://strugee.net/"
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syndicatedCopies:
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- title: 'The Fediverse'
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url: 'https://pleroma.envs.net/notice/AUjf1wCr0xk0yCVpKK'
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- title: 'Lobsters'
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url: 'https://lobste.rs/s/9eas9d/you_should_prepare_for_openssl_3_x_secvuln#c_lreowa'
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Despite BoringSSL's "not intended for general use" warning, it's used by many projects:
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- The "ring" rust crate's crypto primitives (used by Rustls)
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- Cloudflare: used everywhere, including Quiche.
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- Apple's Secure Transport (it's in both major mobile OSes!)
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- Optionally: Nginx, libcurl
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- <ins datetime="2023-04-24">(Update <time>2023-04-24</time>) [Apple's SwiftNIO SSL](https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-ssl)</ins>
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- <ins datetime="2023-04-24">(Update <time>2023-04-24</time>) [AWS libcrypto](https://github.com/aws/aws-lc) is based on BoringSSL</ins>
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- <ins datetime="2023-05-26">(Update <time>2023-05-26</time>) the Envoy proxy [uses BoringSSL](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/faq/build/boringssl)</ins>
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I use nginx-quic with BoringSSL without issue, although I did have to use [a separate script](https://github.com/tomwassenberg/certbot-ocsp-fetcher) to manage the OCSP cache. The script manages the cache better than Nginx ever did, so I recommend it; it should be trivial to switch it from OpenSSL to LibreSSL.
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