On Tue Mar 29 12:28:55 2011, Eric Burger wrote:
Would we not be better off just asking (mandating?) at least one
open source implementation? That effort would produce a de facto
API.
Unfortunately this doesn't work in practise.
One of the examples that Sam raised originally concerned TLS, and
that has (at least) three different open-source implementations in
library form, all with fairly different APIs.
Some effort has been made to provide basic functionality in some
libraries using an OpenSSL compatible layer, but given OpenSSL's API
is only sparingly documented, I'm not sure of the utility.
Dave.
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