That depends on your goals.<p>I started testing nginx compiled against LibreSSL from before portable was official[0].<p>If your goal is security, as far as I&#x27;m concerned it&#x27;s met that goal since day one. If the goal is stability, the slimmer codebase is certainly no less stable than OpenSSL.<p>There were however, several occasions places where code didn&#x27;t compile for various reasons. Some were fixed by nginx, and some were fixed with PRs I sent LibreSSL. Key to this is that there were situations where newer releases of LibreSSL broke my build process.<p>If you were on a project less ubiquitous than nginx, you may find that sort of hacking a waste of time.<p>If you have the resources to use it, it&#x27;s posts like this that strongly turn me in the direction of LibreSSL.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;technion&#x2F;libressl_nginx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;technion&#x2F;libressl_nginx</a>