Re: [twsocket] Poor man's SSL/TLS?

2008-09-11 Thread jlist
Yes. It would make most sense to use OpenSSL for most applications. I thought about the other direction only because in one of my applications there is a download size restraint and the OpenSSL libraries are fairly large. Given the sizes of the DLLs, I can imagine there is a huge amount of code in

Re: [twsocket] Poor man's SSL/TLS?

2008-09-11 Thread Francois PIETTE
I would add to Arno words that one has to look at the size of OpenSSL source code. It is huge ! I don't see any reason to rewrite it given it is open source and recognized as a high quality software. But maybe you see something I missed... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-ti

Re: [twsocket] Poor man's SSL/TLS?

2008-09-11 Thread Arno Garrels
> that encourage people to use the OpenSSL library. I hope > those who worked on ICS-SSL could shed some light... Beside the huge effort it would take to implement the SSL from scratch, do you realy believe that any home-grown solution, written by non-experts in cryptography could be more secure