BoringSSL
E224034
BoringSSL is a Google-maintained fork of OpenSSL focused on security, simplicity, and suitability for large-scale, internal use in projects like Chrome and Android.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BoringSSL canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2002252 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BoringSSL Context triple: [Poly1305, usedBy, BoringSSL]
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A.
Bytecode Alliance
Bytecode Alliance is a nonprofit industry consortium focused on advancing secure, modular, and portable software through technologies built around WebAssembly.
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B.
DNS over DTLS
DNS over DTLS is a protocol that secures DNS queries using Datagram Transport Layer Security over UDP, providing encryption and integrity while preserving DNS’s low-latency, connectionless nature.
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C.
Opera Crypto Browser
Opera Crypto Browser is a web browser tailored for cryptocurrency and Web3 users, featuring built-in wallet functionality, dApp support, and enhanced blockchain security tools.
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D.
DNS over QUIC (DoQ)
DNS over QUIC (DoQ) is a modern DNS transport protocol that uses the QUIC encrypted, multiplexed UDP-based transport to provide faster, more secure, and more reliable DNS queries than traditional methods.
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E.
SSL 3.0
SSL 3.0 is an obsolete cryptographic protocol that once secured internet communications and served as the foundation for the early versions of TLS.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BoringSSL Target entity description: BoringSSL is a Google-maintained fork of OpenSSL focused on security, simplicity, and suitability for large-scale, internal use in projects like Chrome and Android.
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A.
Bytecode Alliance
Bytecode Alliance is a nonprofit industry consortium focused on advancing secure, modular, and portable software through technologies built around WebAssembly.
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B.
DNS over DTLS
DNS over DTLS is a protocol that secures DNS queries using Datagram Transport Layer Security over UDP, providing encryption and integrity while preserving DNS’s low-latency, connectionless nature.
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C.
Opera Crypto Browser
Opera Crypto Browser is a web browser tailored for cryptocurrency and Web3 users, featuring built-in wallet functionality, dApp support, and enhanced blockchain security tools.
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D.
DNS over QUIC (DoQ)
DNS over QUIC (DoQ) is a modern DNS transport protocol that uses the QUIC encrypted, multiplexed UDP-based transport to provide faster, more secure, and more reliable DNS queries than traditional methods.
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E.
SSL 3.0
SSL 3.0 is an obsolete cryptographic protocol that once secured internet communications and served as the foundation for the early versions of TLS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OpenSSL fork
ⓘ
TLS library ⓘ cryptographic library ⓘ |
| basedOn | OpenSSL ⓘ |
| designGoal |
API stability not guaranteed
ⓘ
hardened against misuse ⓘ reduce complexity ⓘ remove unused OpenSSL features ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| focus |
internal use
ⓘ
large-scale deployment ⓘ security ⓘ simplicity ⓘ |
| implements |
SSL/TLS protocol stack
ⓘ
cryptographic primitives ⓘ |
| license |
ISC-like license
ⓘ
OpenSSL License ⓘ |
| maintainer |
Google security teams
ⓘ
surface form:
Google security team
|
| notIntendedFor |
general-purpose system library
ⓘ
third-party stable API consumers ⓘ |
| origin | fork of OpenSSL 1.0.2-era codebase ⓘ |
| platform | cross-platform ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| replacesInGoogle | OpenSSL ⓘ |
| repository | https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/ ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| supportsAlgorithm |
AES
ⓘ
ChaCha20 ⓘ ECDHE ⓘ ECDSA ⓘ Poly1305 ⓘ RSA ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
ALPN
ⓘ
FIPS-related code paths (select builds) ⓘ OCSP stapling ⓘ certificate verification ⓘ session resumption ⓘ |
| supportsLanguageBinding | C API ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
DTLS
ⓘ
TLS ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
X.509 certificates
ⓘ
surface form:
X.509
|
| usedBy |
Android
ⓘ
Google Chrome ⓘ Google services ecosystem ⓘ
surface form:
Google services
|
| usedIn |
Android application framework
ⓘ
surface form:
Android networking stack
Chromium web browser ⓘ
surface form:
Chromium-based browsers
Google server infrastructure ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: BoringSSL Description of subject: BoringSSL is a Google-maintained fork of OpenSSL focused on security, simplicity, and suitability for large-scale, internal use in projects like Chrome and Android.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.