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 Replacement for Espressif's libssl, kept as close as possible to [axTLS](http://axtls.sourceforge.net/) source.
-Currently based on axTLS 1.4.9, will be upgraded to 1.5.3.
+Currently based on axTLS 1.5.3+.
 
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