I personally don't share this belief that openssl is bad (in fact, for PHP developers, openssl is preferable to libmcrypt which has been abandoned since 2007), I just know it's a common sentiment of infosec people. :)
Sure. I simply use it for crypto primitives (e.g. aes-256-gcm) in environments where I cannot install libsodium from PECL (e.g. crypto_easybox() and crypto_easybox_open()).
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It is, but please note that OpenSSH uses very little of OpenSSL's code. None of the serious bugs lately had any impact on OpenSSH.
That's probably very reassuring.
I personally don't share this belief that openssl is bad (in fact, for PHP developers, openssl is preferable to libmcrypt which has been abandoned since 2007), I just know it's a common sentiment of infosec people. :)
Just because OpenSSL is very hard to replace doesn't mean it's not very bad.
Sure. I simply use it for crypto primitives (e.g. aes-256-gcm) in environments where I cannot install libsodium from PECL (e.g. crypto_easybox() and crypto_easybox_open()).