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What is OpenSSL used for in Bitcoin?

April 28, 2014, 02:31:19 AM

I remember reading about the developers choosing to use it despite the fact of it exposing a major attack vector, what dependencies could be potentially (easily?) removed from Bitcoin and is OpenSSL among them?

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