13 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenSSL first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“currently we use openssl that for example doesn't support GREASE.”
regret · production · Sytten · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenSSL was failing when the MTU was 1496 instead of 1500... That was odd behavior to me, because I see SSL as something that should be a layer above TCP”
regret · production · zackmorris · 2014-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having to build all dependencies of rust including python and openssl and everything else”
neutral · production · lrvick · 2026-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“parsing the NotAfter field in the OpenSSL output”
neutral · production · timcambrant · 2024-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Key projects we utilize: ... OpenSSL”
neutral · production · gsreenivas · 2018-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched away from OpenSSL to BoringSSL (in part to get rid of our own modifications)”
neutral · production · jgrahamc · 2018-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Openssl/OpenSSH is now up to date according to the CentOS repo”
neutral · production · mediacatch · 2015-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Still hard to figure out which version of openssl is actually running in production.”
neutral · production · jbeda · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Node statically links OpenSSL and uses gyp (the chromium build system) to build it.”
neutral · production · piscisaureus · 2014-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You need to download and compile a newer version of openssl (rather than using packages - RHEL in particular since that's what we use)”
neutral · production · jsmeaton · 2013-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This was fixed in Android 4.2 when we switched from BouncyCastle to OpenSSL as the underlying crypto provider.”
neutral · production · tjohns · 2013-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We recently upgraded the server that hosts the analytics to a sufficiently recent version of OpenSSL”
neutral · production · JshWright · 2013-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they use a few other libs as well, e.g. cURL, openssl, gsl.”
neutral · production · noselasd · 2013-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?