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Which Software Took 12 Years To Reach Version 1, and Doesn’t Have a Version 2?

I am going to ask a few questions and see if you can identify the software.

It still has the names of the original code writers as part of the DLL integration.

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It was released as Version 0.98 in 1998, and didn’t reach Version 1.0 until 2010.

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I had its FIPS 140–1 certification revoked by NIST when it failed some security tests.

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It took until 2018 to reach Version 1.1.

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It skipped Version 2, and went to Version 3 in 2021.

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Google released Tink and Boring SSL, in order to replace its operations.