OpenSSL 1.0.2 - now with less whitespace!

On January 22 2015, version 1.0.2 of OpenSSL was released. Besides some new bugfixes and features, the biggest change under the hood was a complete reformatting of the source code. An official coding style document was published, and as a result primarily buckets and lots of tabs and newline characters have been converted into whitespaces.

Personally I hope that this action, which affected the majority of lines(!) of code, will help the project for the best and will make it easier to maintain the project in the future.

One disadvantage of reformatting code for instance however is that it makes it a lot harder to spot differences in code between certain versions, as almost all files have most of their lines changed.

Another disadvantage is that merging additional patches (like the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 ciphers) back into OpenSSL took a great deal of extra time. Unnecessary time, one might say.

The OpenSSL 1.0.2 fork including the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 ciphers has been pushed to the github repo at https://github.com/PeterMosmans/openssl/

As always, you can find compiled Windows 32 and 64 bit binaries at https://www.onwebsecurity.com/cryptography/openssl.