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On Jul 16, 2015 4:04 AM, "Saurabh Shukla" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation. I understand the reasons behind not
> supporting other implementations.
>
> -- Saurabh
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:56 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > To answer in more detail, the implementations have vastly different APIs,
> > so almost all software gets written for a particular encryption library,
> > not for multiple libraries.
> >
> > Due to the historic instability of the openssl API (not to mention their
> > security track record), rsyslog has been written to use the gnuTLS
> library
> > instead.
> >
> > I think it's even a bit more than 'patches welcome' as well. Maintaining
> > support for openssl is a significant amount of ongoing work. Someone
> > looking to add such support would need to convince Rainer that they would
> > be sticking around to support it going forward before such patches were
> > accepted.
> >
> > That said, it would be good to have support for multiple libraries, it's
> > just a lot of work.
> >
> > David Lang
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> >
> >  No.
> >>
> >> Sent from phone, thus brief.
> >> Am 15.07.2015 23:49 schrieb "Saurabh Shukla" <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >>  Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Does rsyslog support TLS implementation from OpenSSL? If yes, how can I
> >>> configure rsyslog to use OpenSSL?
> >>>
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