As a fork of the open-source implementation of the Transport Layer Security protocol OpenSSL, LibreSSL aims to modernize the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes. The primary development of occurs inside the OpenBSD source tree and is packaged for operating systems like FreeBSD, Linux, Windows and others. LibreSSL releases consists of several parts including libcryto, a ibrary of cryptography fundamentals, libssl, a TLS library and libtls a new TLS library, designed to make it easier to write foolproof applications.
