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

[Arvid N. <arv...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:46 PM Kasper Laudrup <la...@st...>
wrote:

> 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?
>

There is GnuTLS support here:

https://github.com/paullouisageneau/boost-asio-gnutls

but it's not part of the official asio package, nor boost.

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Arvid Norberg