Monticello and https://

Avi Bryant avi.bryant at gmail.com
Wed May 25 09:41:45 UTC 2005


On 5/25/05, Frank Shearar <Frank.Shearar at rnid.org.uk> wrote:

> > *At some point last year I looked over the Cryptography package on
> > SqueakMap with Martin Kobicek, who wrote VW's native SSL library, and
> > he said that most of what you'd need is there - so if someone's
> > feeling ambitious...
> 
> Is there any particular reason why we wouldn't want to write a plugin
> talking to OpenSSL instead? I mean, I wouldn't dream of discouraging a
> courageous fellow from implementing SSL, but OpenSSL's been around for
> quite some time, and has been hammered on a great deal - we can be
> reasonably certain that it's pretty secure. 

That would also be good, of course.  But does OpenSSL build on the
Acorn?  PocketPC? :)

Avi



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