Google announced over the weekend that it had taken the OpenSSL codebase, and forked it to create a new project dubbed BoringSSL. In the past, Google had taken OpenSSL and rebased its custom patches ...

Google is working on its own version of OpenSSL, an open-source protocol intended to secure and encrypt the transfer of data across the Internet. The new version -- code name BoringSSL -- from the ...

A name like BoringSSL might be more likely to induce somnolence than excitement, but this unobtrusive security update might be just what Google needs to simplify security across dozens of systems. By ...

Google is dropping OpenSSL in its newest Chrome beta, in favor of its own forked version called BoringSSL. According to them, this should offer a more streamlined and secure experience for users.

Google is developing its own version of OpenSSL that will be more appropriate for its own software products, which have been using the critical encryption component for years with customized patches.

As developers continue heir struggles to fix the vulnerabilities within OpenSSL’s crypto library, Google has announced yet another fork of the project based on its own version of the code, amusingly ...

Google is releasing its own independently developed "fork" of OpenSSL, the widely used cryptography library that came to international attention following the Heartbleed vulnerability that threatened ...

Google has exhausted a lot of resources patching up OpenSSL, so much in fact, the company has elected to create its own fork aptly named BoringSSL. Preparing to move the platform to Chrome, Mountain ...