I've been deliberating switching one of my projects over from
protobufs/gRPC to capnp. My initial use case is mmaped struct-like data,
which capnp excels at, but I would also like to be able to serve that same
data to the wire, so I more or less want the full capnp-rpc package.

Unfortunately, I'm back to the same sticking point which has prevented me
from using capnp in the past: TLS support. Has there been any movement on
first-class TLS support in capnp-rpc implementations? It's really a
showstopper for my use cases and I would like to avoid having to deal with
bespoke TLS support in every language I want to make a client library for.

I know that TLS hasn't been very amenable to capnp-style flows (and talked
with Kenton about that a bit) but I think TLS 1.3 will address a lot of
these problems with 0-RTT support, and until then TLS will just add
additional roundtrips, something I'm fine with.

Alternatively there's the Noise protocol, which may be a better fit for
capnp's messaging semantics:

http://noiseprotocol.org/

Either way, I need encryption 😉

-- 
Tony Arcieri

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