[Gluster-devel] LibTLS?

Justin Clift justin at gluster.org
Thu Mar 19 23:18:56 UTC 2015


On 19 Mar 2015, at 22:36, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 09:13:03PM +0000, Justin Clift wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>> 
>> Is LibTLS (by the OpenBSD LibreSSL people) on your radar?
>> 
>>  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9233065
>>  http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20141101063214&pid=3
>> 
>> Their main LibreSSL website says it's portable - eg to Linux,
>> FreeBSD, etc - so it kind of sounds interesting. ;)
> 
> Portable is one thing, the availability and its maintenance burdon in
> distributions an other. I do not think Fedora has any plans on including
> LibreSSL and LibTLS in the near future. There even was an attempt to
> only use GnuTLS (?) or OpenSSL because two implementations of such a
> complex library is perceived as inefficient.
> 
> I'd prefer to stick to the mainstream libraries, at least for now.

No worries.  Was just a thought. :)

+ Justin

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