Re: Supporting Windows SChannel as OpenSSL replacement

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Supporting Windows SChannel as OpenSSL replacement
Date: 2014-06-09 13:36:25
Message-ID: CABUevEy853AWkRaKFAOod20KVX319u+sKVwWK5+f5H9=9yNQ9Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:45:08PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Thoughts? While we're at it, we'll probably want to refactor things
> > so that it's easy to support other SSL implementations too, like
> > gnutls.
>
> One project that is proud to support several SSL implementations
> is curl: http://curl.haxx.se/
>
> Git: https://github.com/bagder/curl.git
> Implementations: https://github.com/bagder/curl/tree/master/lib/vtls
>
> List from vtls.c:
>
> - OpenSSL
> - GnuTLS
> - NSS
> - QsoSSL
> - GSKit
> - PolarSSL
> - CyaSSL
> - Schannel SSPI
> - SecureTransport (Darwin)
>
> We cannot reuse the code directly, but seems it's usable for
> reference for various gotchas that need to be solved.
>

I did actually talk to Daniel at some point about turning that into a
generalized library, and/or getting him interested in helping out with it.
I can't remember where that ended up - I'll see if I can poke his interest
:)

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Magnus Hagander
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