&gt; The &quot;severity&quot; is often not accurate. OpenSSL recently marked an issue as lowly severe, but in fact its severity was high.<p>...<p>&gt; LibreSSL has had no &quot;high&quot; vulnerabilities, whereas OpenSSL had 5. Decide for yourself which way to go.<p>I&#x27;m not defending or apologizing for OpenSSL (or any project), but your rationale isn&#x27;t consistent, seemingly only trying to evoke an emotional response.<p>Since heartbleed, lots of new SSL implementations have sprung up (Libre, Boring, etc), and hard lights have shone on OpenSSL as well. The scrutiny and competition will come to be win for all consumers of SSL. It&#x27;s not clear to me (as a consumer) that any project has a huge leg-up over another (though Libre&#x27;s wholesale dump of a tremendous amount of legacy code sounds like a step in the right direction).<p>Do we even know this won&#x27;t show up in other (Boring, Libre) implementations as well ?<p>Edit: formatting