From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20031111090457.00abdda8@pop.monitorbm.co.nz> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Subject: Re: [9fans] TLSServer? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:10:46 +1300 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85bfa270-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 At 09:25 10/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I need to write a Unix application that uses TLS/SSL. I >looked at using OpenSSL, but lordy mama -- what an interface. >Since I only need to do the server side of the communication, >I thought perhaps the Plan 9 tls stuff could be used. > >Comments? How much work would it be to get the current >code working in a Unix environ? > >Cheers, > >Sam I use OpenSSL under Windows, and find it very good. The build process is a bit painful, and the online documentation is dreadful, but if you get a copy of the O'Reilly book "Network Security with OpenSSL" it all becomes remarkably simple. They've even provided a sample server application for you to copy.