The OpenSSL project has announced long-term support for the OpenSSL 3.0 cryptographic library branch, with updates to be provided for 5 years from the release date, i.e., until September 7, 2026. The previous LTS branch 1.1.1 will be supported until September 11, 2023.
Additionally, it's worth noting the release of the portable version of the LibreSSL 3.5.0 package by the OpenBSD project, which develops a fork of OpenSSL aimed at providing a higher level of security. Notable changes in the new version include the porting from OpenSSL of support for RFC 3779 (X.509 extensions for (the key to connect to is specified, and iroh finds the associated host and establishes an encrypted connection using the QUIC protocol). Direct P2P connections are established whenever possible, but if not, it falls back to using relays, which are also employed for host discovery by keys. You can run your own relay or connect to public relays supported by the community. and autonomous systems) and the Certificate Transparency mechanism (a public log of all issued and revoked certificates, which allows for independent auditing of all changes and actions by certificate authorities and enables immediate tracking of any attempts to create fake records secretly). Compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1 has been significantly improved, and cipher names for TLSv1.3 that are identical to those in OpenSSL have been used. Many functions have been transitioned to use calloc(). A large number of new calls have been added in libssl and libcrypto.
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