rip out all openSSL replace with libreSSL
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Marc Hoersken <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel, thanks for gathering the feedback! > > On 14.06.2014 23:16, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > > up-to-date windows binaries by knauf > > If I would know which type of Windows builds are the most frequently > requested ones, I could setup my Windows testing buildbots [1] to > produce curl and libcurl binaries and make them available for download. > > > My biggest issue is that the key feature I need is only available with > > the > > OpenSSL backend. For my application (and frankly most others, they > > just don't > > actually care enough), it's essential to be able to control validation > > of the > > server's key while setting up a TLS connection. Without that feature, > > use of > > TLS is completely unsafe for applications, and right now that's OpenSSL > > only. So the portability to other back-ends is both not useful, and has > > actually caused bugs in the OpenSSL back-end because of the complexity of > > supporting the others. > > I understand the concerns regarding the mismatch of the supported > SSL/TLS features by each individual crypto backend, but I actually think > that supporting different crypto backends is one of curls most valuable > assets. Of course, the vtls abstraction and especially the niche > backends definitely require some hard work and love. > > [1] http://curlbuild.uxnr.de/waterfall > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html >
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