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<p>Before April 2014, <a href="https://openssl-library.org/">OpenSSL</a> was a backwater open source project with fewer than 10 regular contributors and 1 1/2 maintainers. Meanwhile its code had become a pillar of secure communication and data privacy in the industry. This was an unstable situation that was exposed when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed">Heartbleed bug</a> became global news.</p> <p>The way the OpenSSL project responded to this crisis was informed by the principles of open source. Jon Ericson, the Community Manager for the <a href="https://openssl-foundation.org/">OpenSSL Foundation</a>, explains how a security bug ignited community growth and how the open source community provides ongoing stability to the OpenSSL project.</p>