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The "unlikely"s and "by accident"s in your comment are correct if and only if you assume too much about the scenario in which LibreSSL is to be deployed. It goes far beyond web servers, you know.

For example, what of routers that have no means of entropy input but interrupt timing? What of Android libraries that just use libcrypto? These systems are usually free to exploit by determined attackers!

LibreSSL/OpenSSL doesn't think "unlikely" and tries to cover as much as possible. The TLS library needs to work as good as possible regardless of the context.




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