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

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

On 21/07/2020 01.45, Vinnie Falco wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 2:46 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 just going to venture a guess here, but the author of Asio only
> has so much time.
> 

That's a very reasonable and likely explanation, I was only wondering if 
there might be some other reason.

>> 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,
> 
> Others and I would be very interested in seeing work of this type
> completed. If you are reasonably proficient in Asio, I would be open
> to providing assistance for getting something like this accomplished.
> 
> I also think that such a project would be very viable as its own Boost library.
> 
> If you are interested please email me privately and we'll get you started!
> 

Thanks a lot.

I guess my first attempt would be to make an extremely ugly 
proof-of-concept.

If I could get something like the example SSL client to work with native 
SSL support on Windows, even if the solution was full of hacks and far 
from a working solution, then I could take it from there and see if I 
could make it a real boost library.

If I get there I'll definitely consider your offer. Thanks once again.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup