[clug] [OT] 'Technical Debt' in Infrastructure, now entering mainstream media

Robert Edwards bob at cs.anu.edu.au
Sat Nov 9 01:51:44 UTC 2019


On 8/11/19 7:18 pm, Steve Walsh via linux wrote:
> On 8/11/19 6:29 pm, Stephen Hocking via linux wrote:
>> OpenSSL, methinks.
> 
> Not SSLeay?
> 
> Eric Andrew Young (the 'eay' in 'SSLeay') and Tim J Hudson are both UQ
> alumni who also went to work for RSA Labs after they ceased developing
> SSLeay.
> 
> 

Well done, Steve and Stephen.

 From Wikipedia (another project not written by a multinational company
and not employing PR companies to poo-poo OS projects...):

SSLeay is an open-source SSL implementation. It was developed by Eric 
Andrew Young[1] and Tim J. Hudson as an SSL 3.0 implementation using RC2 
and RC4 encryption.[2] The recommended pronunciation is to say each 
letter s-s-l-e-a-y and was first developed by Eric A. Young ("eay").[3] 
SSLeay also included an implementation of the DES from earlier work by 
Eric Young which was believed to be the first open-source implementation 
of DES. Development of SSLeay unofficially mostly ended, and volunteers 
forked the project under the OpenSSL banner around December 1998, when 
Tim and Eric both commenced working for RSA Security in Australia.

cheers,
Bob Edwards.



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