Re: [axtls-general] Is this project actively maintained?

[Anthony G. B. <ba...@op...>]

On 08/20/14 11:41, Ole Reinhardt wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> Sorry for the very late answer. I went on holidays right after writing
> my last message to the list :)
>
> Am 29.07.2014 00:18, schrieb Cameron Rich:
>> Yes and no... This project started 7 years ago and I've lost count of
>> the hundreds/thousands of hours spent on it.
>>
>> But life has got complicated (wife, two kids, head developer of the
>> region etc) and time has been sucked out of me.
>
> Yes, I know this kind of problem. And I face the same problems by
> myself. Anyhow I would like to support the project with my (little)
> sparetime if possible.

If its any incentive axtls is being pushed out in gentoo.  I've been 
maintaining it there and bug wrangling etc.

>
>> Every time I sit down to work on it, something comes up.
>>
>> So... would you be prepared to be a co-developer and do releases? What's
>> your name on sourceforge?
>
> Yes I'd be glad to help out, whereever I can.
>
> I have to admid, that my knowledge about SSL/TLS is still far away from
> beeing "very good", but I think I start getting a quite good overview.
>
> I'm one of the main developers of the Ethernut Project
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethernut/?source=directory) and we
> started to integrate a slightly modified version of axTLS as standard
> TLS stack to Nut/OS.
>
> My sourceforge name is "olereinhardt"
>
>> The things I need to do:
>>
>> *a buffer overrun patch (from you)
>> * the biggie - RFC5746 support (done properly).
>> * any general queries.
>
> Yes, I started reading the mailinglist two month ago. So I'm not in the
> focus on any previous discussion. Perhaps we could discuss any open
> problems / patches and I'd be happy to help fixing these things and
> enhancing the stack further.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ole
>

I can help maintain by producing patches for bugs we hit in gentoo.  So 
far nothing major but I'm no crypto expert.  Just a plain old c guy.

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