Well that sounds sufficiently daunting :)
Thanks for the reply Holger.
Brett.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Kruse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: SSL now?
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:47:41AM +1000, Brett Handley wrote:
> > Would it be correct to say that a sufficiently knowledgeable person
(counts
> > me out) can write a ssl scheme for View/Pro now?
>
> Yes, but the amount of code left to right is HUGE. SSL uses ASN.1-encoded
X509
> certificates during the session establishment, i.e. one would have to
write at
> least parts of an ASN.1 encoder/decoder and X509 certificate management.
That's
> on top of the already complex SSL engine (v2 and v3). And for
compatibility with
> most web servers you would need to implement the DES and ARCFOUR ciphers
as well...
>
> An easier solution might be to just use the Library component to access
one of
> the existing SSL libraries, e.g. openssl.so in Unix.
>
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