commit | 6595ddb35432d8a07cd1416490149d1192066063 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Adam Langley <alangley@gmail.com> | Tue Feb 22 13:27:29 2022 -0800 |
committer | Adam Langley <agl@google.com> | Thu Feb 24 23:57:36 2022 +0000 |
tree | 1d30653588a4b7069479ff042089e1a4f2a5c9ce | |
parent | 4d955d20d27bcf3ae71df091ad17d95229a7eb56 [diff] |
Include the policy document for the most recent FIPS validation. NIST publishes the PDFs of the security policy documents (although the latest one is still missing). We include the docx sources to help others who might be doing a rebrand certification of BoringCrypto. Change-Id: I5c1511d53ec1d09d257d3aab1301486c364b660b Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/51505 Reviewed-by: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.
Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.
Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.
BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.
Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.
Project links:
There are other files in this directory which might be helpful: