> that encourage people to use the OpenSSL library. I hope > those who worked on ICS-SSL could shed some light...
Beside the huge effort it would take to implement the SSL from scratch, do you realy believe that any home-grown solution, written by non-experts in cryptography could be more secure than an open source library that is standard in unix world, with contributers like IBM etc.? -- Arno Garrels [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html jlist wrote: > I was reading TLS's wikipedia page the other day. I find > that although it's a lot of work, it is probably not > too bad to write the SSL handshake and encryption from > scratch, say, with ICS. I must be seriously overlooking > the details and complexities. I wonder what are the potential > issues of taking this approach and what is the main reasons > that encourage people to use the OpenSSL library. I hope > those who worked on ICS-SSL could shed some light... > > -- > Jack -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
