On 9 Nov 2010, at 4:06 PM, Karthick Ramu wrote: > I know that SSL requires a transport layer for reliability purpose. But if > there is a reliable, pre-provisioned and lossless network is it possible to > transport a SSL packet without any transport layer protocol. Does OpenSSL > support SSL without transport layer. Please help.
OpenSSL can operate over any "reliable byte stream" style transport; it uses a BIO to represent the transport layer. You can write a BIO implementation for whatever transport layer you like. If the underlying transport is record-oriented and you want transport datagrams to correspond to SSL packets, you might not be able to do that easily with OpenSSL. Maybe you could use DTLS in that case, but I don't know much about DTLS. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
