In the open-source development model, when disputes happen and one group wants to take a project in a different direction, forks happen and that’s what is now occurring with OpenSSL.
The open-source OpenBSD operating system community has now officially forked the OpenSSL code and is building its own version of an open-source cryptographic library called LibreSSL.
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