You're looking for a BIO_s_mem. -Kyle H
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Aaron Wiebe <epiph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings All, > > I've gone through various levels of documentation to see if there is a > method available to implement SSL as I have envisioned, but I haven't > been able to find what I'm looking for. Perhaps someone here could > point me in a good direction... > > I'm developing a nonblocking application (backed by several > edge-trigger methods, such as epoll/kqueue/etc). I'd like to > integrate SSL into the flow, but I'm not fond of pushing the buffering > and socket interaction routines into the SSL library. What I would > prefer to do is to perform callouts to the ssl library, while > maintaining the buffering and socket handling within my application. > > Ideally, I'd like to perform the recv() calls, buffer the data myself, > and pass it to a function that would be capable of decrypting the data > (if a complete encryption block is received) - and provide me > appropriate returns to let me know if additional steps are required > (such as a renegotiation). I'd also prefer to be able to encrypt the > data through a function call, and be able to buffer and deliver that > data at my leisure. > > In short, I don't really want SSL doing my writing or buffering. I > just want the library to do my negotiation and encryption - but by > providing me the data I need rather than by writing to the socket. > > Does the ability to do this exist? I'm not too fond of fully > reverse-engineering SSL itself and using the pure encryption calls, so > I'm hoping there exists API's that will let me take this route. If > anyone knows of an implementation out there like this, I'd love to see > it. > > Thanks! > -Aaron > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-us...@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
