LibreSSL

This article was published in 2017 about R&D work, which resulted in stable production release of Themis that uses BoringSSL as one of crypto-engines. If you’re a developer and you’re dealing with cryptography for your app, consider using high-level cryptographic libraries like Themis instead of BoringSSL. No need to struggle with BoringSSL if your goal is to protect users’ data. Intro In Themis, we use industry-recognized implementations of cryptographic algorithms that come from OpenSSL/LibreSSL packages.

Intro While building WebThemis, we've encountered the need to build LibreSSL for PNaCl as a source of cryptographic primitives. The problem? LibreSSL has huge codebase with a lot of complicated code, that won't build on new platform out of the box. Solution? Strip all we can and make the rest work. Having gone “let’s do a quick hack to build Libre” barbaric way for PoC version of WebThemis, we would like to share our experience for the aspiring PNaCl developers to benefit.