Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> Tom Zerucha wrote:
> >
> > I had SSLeay 0.9's crypto portion ported (basically PilotSSLeay plus
> > more algorithms). This using gcc.
> >
> > It required a lot of patches so is not a clean set of just compiler
> > options or such, and didn't do SSL since I am using it for OpenPGP.
> >
> > OpenSSL 0.9.1c worked more or less.
> >
> > After a lot of work I managed to get 0.9.5a to compile, but the BN or
> > algorithms using it fail, and I haven't tested a lot of the rest.
> >
> > Is anyone else working on porting OpenSSL to PalmOS?
>
> No, but I'm interested. I even had the tools installed on my previous
> machine - guess I'll have to install them again.
>
Hmm. What would be the advantage of that ?
I mean, to do anything serious with it (ie connection to the outside
world) you'd need to connect it via serial cable to some PC or
Workstation. And that neccessarily involves a daemon to handle the
connection between the PalmPilot and the rest of the world. So we can as
well build the SSL-capabilities into the daemon und run the connection
over the serial line unencrypted, since it is rather unlikely that
someone would eavesdrop on a serial line which is only a couple of feet
long (provided you are not in full paranoia mode, that is)(Anyone read
the tempest document from mskuhn ?).
Plus it has the advantage of offloading some processing load from the
Pilot.
So why should one do it ?
Cheers,
Hannes
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