| commit | b4156026a1d47c37d9b70f933af10e1a910b70a3 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> | Thu Oct 14 18:19:33 2021 -0400 |
| committer | Adam Langley <agl@google.com> | Fri Oct 15 21:33:58 2021 +0000 |
| tree | eadf78aafa585182ad4813f451cfb5853c81eeb5 | |
| parent | 7a4df8e97ee76159100bb60568a2b6a88e04e766 [diff] |
Start documenting ASN1_ITEM. I've intentionally not discussed defining ASN1_ITEM, because I'm hoping we can limit that to libdecrepit and users of asn1t.h. I suspect we can't avoid ASN1_ITEM itself, but we may be able to replace it with an internal new/free/d2i/i2d vtable someday. Bug: 426 Change-Id: Iebd5a8f5ab7078d14131f869b98cdb79b56884ff Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/49907 Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@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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