content: After research and discussion with people more familiar with cryptography, I can say with certainty that OpenSSL is safe On 8/1/17 a user started a thread questioning the integrity of OpenSSL, I dove into the code review to make sure we were not dealing with another Heartbleed, and at first it looked really bad. But, I am happy to give my final assessment: 9/1/17  UPDATE: I am an IT Security consultant and this really caught my attention, because if true I would have had a lot of money to make. ;) I reproduced everything in that post, and I thought for a minute he really found a flaw, but after discussing this with some people who know more about cryptography, we determined that the poster making the claims mixed truth, and his ignorance had created a step by step guide to scaring yourself by incorrectly implementing OpenSSL. I also contacted the OpenSSL team, and emailed them this: Possible zeroday exploit Hi, I found someone else's work claiming to have found a severe bug in your code, here is a direct link to the other person's work: https://archive.fo/y13zq I also attached the possible bug as an html file, which is just a copy of the direct link. Just as a disclaimer, none of this work is mine. I just found it and am passing it to you guys. Let me know if it turns out to be anything. Thanks! So we did find some code that needed some repair work, so it wasn't a giant waste of time, and I got to meet a whole new group of security pros, and like I always recommend, use Tor browser to protect your privacy, or if you have the know how, run Linux Mint instead of Windows and use Tor browser for maximum privacy and security.