Thanks cinap.

I know Plan 9's devtls is more useful than Unix's libraries, but finally
want to use git and github.com on Plan 9.
My team works frequently with git.

Git-wrapper can clone but it can't merge, push, and so on.
And I started to port LibreSSL because official git links some libraries
such as libexpat, libcurl, and openssl.

2018-08-04 0:22 <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net>:

> what are you intending to use libressl for in native plan9?
> plan9 already has a crypto library (libsec) which is a fraction of the
> size of openssl and works quite well. i'v been using it to implement
> many crypto protocols to talk to the outside world.
>
> for tls, plan9 uses devtls which allows you to wrap any file descriptor
> to make it a encrypted channel and then you get a filedescriptor back
> that you can pass arround, so the programs communicating actually dont
> even need to know the secret session keys. so adding tls support to
> programs is very trivial in plan9. one function call basically to wrap
> the fd. while in unix programs that want encryption have to change all
> ther read and wirte calls to use special libssl functions.
>
> also, plan9 has factotum to hold and work on secret keys. you can use
> factotum todo the public key operations like signing, encryption and
> decryption using the key for you so keys never have to leave factotum.
>
> even if you port programs from unix, it might be worth taking a step
> back and learn how plan9 does crypto, which is quite advanced compared
> to traditional unix.
>
> --
> cinap
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