Alain, One of the nice things about the openssl implementation is the use of BIO's for communication, protocol becomes totally irrelevant, if you could write a bio to control white (or grey or black) mice to carry your data you could implement secure communications across any road/way/path the mice could trave(mmm cats and timeouts would maybe a trouble). Johan
--- Alain Damiral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings to everyone, > > This is my first mail to this list so first of all I > hope to avoid > making too much of a fool of myself. > > I am a student in computer science and I have been > charged with the task > of implementing a secure communication mechanism for > a high level > peer-to-peer middleware designed for use in the Oz > language > (www.mosart-oz.org). This peer-to-peer network is a > structured network > in which there should not necessarily be a direct > TCP connexion between > two communicating peers. So far it seems like a fine > idea to use SSL > over this network rather than directly over TCP as > is usually done. > Before damaging my health too much on this work I'd > appreciate some > advice from fine people such as many of you > certainly are about the > following questions: > > How feasible is it to use OpenSSL's SSL library to > generate the raw data > that is to be sent through the transport layer > independent of the > latter's implementation ? And read this data on the > other end... > > Would it be a better idea to use OpenSSL's crypto > library to handle > cryptographic operations and certificates and > reimplement the rest of > SSL's behaviour according to it's specification ? > (At least to the > extent required for my piece of work) > > Is there any known similar project, in which OpenSSL > has been used to > implement SSL over non-TCP connexions ? > > > Well that's it for now and I thank you all for your > time, > > Alain Damiral, > > Université Catholique de Louvain - student, > alain.damiral'at'student.uclouvian.be > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
