Create a simple to use wrapper on top of OpenSSL

[medvednikov]

[joe-conigliaro]

I think down the track we should use SChannel for windows and OpenSSL for nix. What do you think? Would be good not to have dependency on OpenSSL when on windows.

[medvednikov]

Yes, ideally.

But it's incredibly complex. And the documentation is terrible. I personally wouldn't even know how to approach it.

If there's someone with SChannel experience, who could help, that would be great.

[joe-conigliaro]

Doesn't GO have their own implementation? I think they don't use OpenSSL or SChannel, if I remember correctly they wrote it from scratch (I may be wrong). If they did, maybe that could be ported to V?

[medvednikov]

They have their own implementation, it uses a lot of Go assembly, so it's not portable.

It's also slower and less tested than OpenSSL.

[joe-conigliaro]

We should take example from here: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-native-tls

[Bowero]

OpenSSL is an option?: #307

[watzon]

For anyone familiar with the Ruby/Crystal syntax this could be a good reference for creating OpenSSL bindings. I may take a crack at this myself.

[joe-conigliaro]

It would be really nice if at some stage we didn't have openssl as a dependency on win.

• windows: Secure Channel
• osx: Security Framework
• linux/others: openssl

I know it would be a lot of tedious work, but it would be nice

[medvednikov]

Absolutely, I'm all for having as few dependencies as possible.

[medvednikov]

This was implemented way back by @joe-conigliaro

[medvednikov]

Sorry I misread the issue, the openssl wrapper is still not implemented.