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As others have said, the technical arguments against FIPS don't mean anything when a huge potential customer requires it.


And huge potential customers don't mean anything to a non-profit open source ecosystem that actually care about security.


When did Red Hat and Google become non-profits? Did I miss something?


RedHat and Google can afford to add FIPS to their own Libre SSL if they want to stop using OpenSSL.




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