| commit | ae1c1a482588ab9b6c5f97b8663cdc50ac2444dd | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> | Sat Dec 30 13:01:38 2023 -0500 |
| committer | Boringssl LUCI CQ <boringssl-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com> | Mon Feb 26 16:25:26 2024 +0000 |
| tree | d0d4cae94b974b24a5fbedce9f5e40cc8407e3da | |
| parent | 9d7535f51f84a079c05b27134fcf6111649c56c9 [diff] |
Document filesystem-based X509_STORE APIs This includes the somewhat odd "defaults" API, which I've currently left kind of handwavy. We should eventually decide what to do with this, be it remove it, decide /etc/ssl is a fine default, or do something else entirely. But I'll leave that to future us. (If nothing else, we really should make it return an error on Windows and macOS. It's really just Linux where /etc/ssl is a plausible platform API.) Bug: 426 Change-Id: Iacd2bb903f452ffe236a7a0b97e3072b5dcd8516 Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/66388 Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Beck <bbe@google.com>
BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.
Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.
Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.
BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.
Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.
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