Monticello and https://

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Wed May 25 10:07:41 UTC 2005


Hi guys!

Avi Bryant <avi.bryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

You might want to know that someone has already made such a plugin in
the Croquet project - I do not remember who/what/where, but I do recall
sucking down a .dmg (Mac archive) and putting it somewhere on my hd for
later perusal. :)

regards, Göran



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