[asio-users] Native Windows ssl::stream support

[Kasper L. <la...@st...>]

Since boost and boost asio aims to be cross platform, I've been 
wondering why the SSL (or TLS) support in asio is so dependent on OpenSSL.

I'm mainly interested in native support for secure sockets on Windows 
since that's one of the platforms I (unfortunately) have to support for 
work, but I'm wondering why another implementation like GnuTLS isn't 
supported either?

It seems like some kind of abstraction has been made where the 
ssl::context could be implemented by something else, but I'm wondering 
why this hasn't been done already even if only as an experiment.

I would very much like to have a go at implementing a wrapper for 
something other than openssl, even though it's probably way beyond my 
skills, but before I even try it would be nice to get some insight on 
this as I haven't been able to find this mentioned anywhere.

Thanks a lot and kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup