Re: PSC #213 2026-01-26

[email protected] (Andrew Hewus Fresh)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 05:13:28PM +0000, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> All three of us discussed:
> 
> * We agree with the general idea of an improved PRNG, so we encourage
>   Scott to continue working on [PR #24105][1] to get it into a polished
>   state ready for merge
> 
> * Haarg's ["missing import" PR][2] now looks good; Paul has LGTM'ed it
> 
> * TLS in core still remains a goal for the next release cycle.
>   [`Crypt::OpenSSL3`][3] might now be in a complete enough state to
>   support a minimal viable product "https" client to be built on top of
>   it, that could be used by an in-core CPAN client


I, for one, would like to see some green lights in the OpenBSD column
(which probably means libressl support).

https://fast2-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Crypt-OpenSSL3+0.002



> [1]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24105
> [2]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24059
> [3]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Crypt::OpenSSL3
> 
> https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2026/01/this-week-in-psc-213-2026-01-26.html
> 
> -- 
> Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
> 
> [email protected]
> http://www.leonerd.org.uk/  |  https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS

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andrew

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