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I still can't believe such a fundamental backbone of the web runs on $2000/year. This is a -worldwide- service, and it runs on peanuts. It's flabbergasting. Please donate today if you can.

https://www.openssl.org/support/donations.html

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No. It needs corporate involvement, from Google, Red Hat, Amazon, Verisign etc. Lend minds, not money. By all means fund people to write it, but like it's not you who should be contributing, it's the corporations who rely on it.

Google and Amazon should be donating to LibreSSL, too. They may have no intention of using it in the next few years, but I'm sure they'd like for a solid alternative to be out there, so they can use it just in case they do change their minds, just like Google recently did with the switch from NSS to OpenSSL, just before Heartbleed happened.

It would've been smart of them to donate to OpenSSL starting a few years back, so that by the time they decided to quit NSS, they would've been sure OpenSSL is pretty solid, and would've also discovered the Heartbleed bug much earlier. They could not repeat the same mistake twice by donating to LibreSSL right now.

Google already donates to LibreSSL; they annually donate to OpenBSD. That money goes towards projects like LibreSSL.

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