[ballard]

Does "ultimatum" and "raft of complicated last-minute changes" not raise anyone else's tinfoil paranoia alarms?

Those commits should get significant scrutiny, because it sounds like US/CA govt were given an indirect opportunity to push whatever changes it wanted AND rushed code isn't necessarily the best either.

(Also I'm glad FIPS mode is dead in LibreSSL.)

[tragic]

Hmmm... Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by bureaucracy. The feds love them some standards.

[SeanDav]

Once upon a time I used to believe this. Post Snowden, I tend to believe the reverse.

[jsmeaton]

I read that part as the approval process required X changes that the OpenSSL team had to implement themselves. I don't believe the approving party was asking the OpenSSL team to commit code they were supplying.