Based on the figures an OpenSSL developer tweeted, their old funding was approximately ~$2,000 per year. (I can't find the source at this exact minute).<p>Hopefully this means OpenSSL will finally be able to afford a few security audits, refactoring, and everything people have wanted.
This is a dupe of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639835" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639835</a>.
Interesting. What makes this effort different from what OpenBSD is doing? I assume rather than the "nuke-from-orbit-and-start-fresh" approach, this will attempt to clean it up and keep platform interoperability and such still around?