On 2011-11-24 15:52 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Nov 22, 2011, at 19:50, Eric A. Borisch wrote:
> 
>> OpenSSL's license negatively impacts the usefulness of the binary
>> distribution process within MacPorts.
> 
> I also just found out about this:
> 
> http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2011/08/mac-os-x-lion-and-openssl.html
> 
> It says Apple has deprecated the use of OpenSSL as of Lion and may remove it 
> entirely in a future OS version, and suggests that developers use Apple's own 
> Common Crypto instead. It's apparently available starting in Leopard, so if 
> we wanted to do that, it wouldn't be too awful for backward compatibility. 
> (Lots of ports are already broken on Tiger for other reasons.)

CommonCrypto is there on Tiger; we use it for hashes (and did during the
period where the code for doing them with OpenSSL was removed).

How does the difficulty of converting OpenSSL-using code to CommonCrypto
compare to GnuTLS or NSS?

- Josh
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