[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] SqueakSSL - a platform interface for SSL/TLS

Patrick Shouse shouse.patrick at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 15:39:43 UTC 2010



Teleplacer wrote:
> 
> Folks -
> 
> Since the weekend is over I've decided to release what I got so far and 
> consequently I'm happy to announce the availability of a new interface 
> to the platform SSL/TLS facilities for Squeak. SqueakSSL is a 
> plugin-based approach which utilizes the platform implementation; 
> currently the SCHANNEL SSPI on Windows and OpenSSL on Unix.
> 
> To use SqueakSSL you need the following pieces:
> 1) The plugin for your platform. For Windows, you can download the 
> plugin from
> 
> 	http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakSSL.zip
> 
> For Unix you'll have to compile your own; I'm attaching the relevant 
> part of the platforms tree. Mac support is currently not provided but 
> the OpenSSL based version can probably be adapted for Macs.
> 
> 2) The SqueakSSL source code and tests. All of this can be found at
> 
> 	http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakSSL.html
> 
> You need SqueakSSL-Core for the code and SqueakSSL-Tests for the unit 
> tests (SqueakSSL-Plugin is the plugin source which you don't need and 
> which we'll probably push into VMMaker).
> 
> Once you've downloaded and installed everything correctly, you should be 
> able to try SqueakSSL via the google example, which makes a query to 
> encrypted.google.com:
> 
> 	SqueakSSL google: 'Squeak'.
> 
> If the query fails your plugin is probably not installed correctly (it 
> seems unlikely that Google's cert has an issue :-)
> 
> 3) For further tests (incl. the unit tests) you will need to provide a 
> server certificate that can be used by SqueakSSL. On Unix you can do 
> that using the openssl command line tools and once you've generated your 
> cert, you can tell SqueakSSLTest to use the cert. On Windows the process 
> is a bit more involved - you need to have a valid cert AND have it 
> installed in the local certificate store (a description can be found at 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816794 but make sure you install it in 
> your *user* account not the computer account). Once you have the cert 
> installed, you can run the unit tests which should now succeed.
> 
> Obviously, this is an early release and there's plenty of work that 
> remains to be done, so help is welcome. However, it is starting to 
> become useful and consequently I'm intending to update WebServer and 
> WebClient soon for HTTPS support.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 

If you get this error message: "This application has failed to start because
MSVCR100.dll was not found", you'll need to install the MS Visual C++
redistributable package:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84


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