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_len...@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 > >
