> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Marcus Meissner > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 04:10
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 08:28:40AM +0000, Mody, Darshan (Darshan) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does Openssl support IPv6 officially?. > > AFAIK the libssl and libcrypto libraries do not use sockets at all, > these are left to the applications/libraries using them. > libssl requires something it can send and receive on using the BIO API that represents the connection to the peer and is normally a socket, although in principle you could write your own module to substitute something crazy like IP-over-carrier-pigeon. The BIO module in libcrypto provides a BIO_sock instance that does I/O on an OS socket and provides the BIO API to libssl (or to code that wants to use plain non-SSL sockets, FTM). BIO_sock can send and receive on any opened socket, IP4 or IP6. So if the application 'connect's or 'accept's the sockets, and then passes them to SSL_set_fd (or equivalent) it works. But last I looked, BIO_sock cannot do IP6 *connect*, and only does IP6 *accept* if you give it an already IP6 listen socket. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
