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		klodolph on Oct 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wherein I Write Apple’s Technote About OpenSSL on ... Have you ever used OpenSSL? It is a total mess. For a popular project, its code is unreadable. I don't know how they maintain it.

taybin on Oct 16, 2012 | [–]

I absolutely agree. I had to dig pretty deep into it to see what broke between versions. It is crazy town in there.

mccoyst on Oct 16, 2012 | | [–]

Upvoted. They maintain it by introducing an endless stream of bugs and vulnerabilities.

dthunt on Oct 22, 2012 | [–]

Heartily agree. But this thread is very wrong about loader basics.

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