@0xabad1dea the OpenSSL debacle is proof the open source community doesn't know best. "Bugs are shallow..." bullshit. Massive performance gains are often shallow but nobody is doing it.

There was an opportunity to seize the moment, but the only person who seemed to care was Bob Beck. And then once OpenSSL promised to make things better everyone gave back the torch back to the OpenSSL folks. (except OpenBSD)

FreeBSD abandoned their plan to switch to LibreSSL and I'm still bitter about it.

"Crypto is scary and dangerous, only the most expert experts should do it" is usually the excuse why people aren't stepping up. Crypto fear mongering is gatekeeping now. We need more people trying. Failure is ok but almost nobody is trying.

Meanwhile Google and Amazon said "ha fuck this" and forked.

Open source community? Suffers in silence (except OpenBSD, who has always suffered performance issues lol)