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		riffraff on Feb 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kill Your Dependencies but otoh, if you try to reinvent something instead of using a tried & true library, you might as well just add new bugs. I.e. I'd 100% use libxml to sanitize xml rather than trying and reimplementing xml parsing myself. As always, trade offs.

fixermark on Feb 11, 2016 [–]

Yep.

OpenSSL has major security issues encountered on a relatively regular basis.

Do not do your users the disservice of rolling your own SSL implementation. ;)

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