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		AlyssaRowan on Jan 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTPS Watch Well, your site is inaccessible to people who don't have TCP/IP stacks too. Try writing one of those from scratch and auditing it. (No, seriously, actually do try, break out Rust, do some proofs; more secure code would be awesome.)

cperciva on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

FreeBSD's IP stack is about 1/4 the size of OpenSSL. (And a hell of a lot easier to read, too.)

EDIT: If you exclude sctp, the remaining IP/UDP/TCP/ICMP parts are 1/8th of the size of OpenSSL.

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