Editing OpenSSL (section)

=== {{Anchor|assl}}Agglomerated SSL ===

In 2009, after frustrations with the original OpenSSL API, Marco Peereboom, an OpenBSD developer at the time, forked the original API by creating Agglomerated SSL (assl),<ref>{{cite web |url= https://github.com/conformal/assl |title= Agglomerated SSL |website= [[GitHub]] |date= 2010-09-07 |access-date= 2024-12-09 |archive-date= December 9, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20241209174330/https://github.com/conformal/assl |url-status= live}}</ref> which reuses OpenSSL API under the hood, but provides a much simpler external interface.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ports.su/security/assl |title= security/assl: assl-1.5.0p0v0 – hide awful SSL API in a sane interface |work= [[OpenBSD ports]] |date= 2014-05-22 |access-date= 2015-02-10 |archive-date= February 10, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150210224924/http://ports.su/security/assl |url-status= live}}</ref>  It has since been deprecated in light of the [[LibreSSL]] fork circa 2015.