I've obviously missed something ... what problem are you trying to
solve?
Cheers,
Ben.
Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I agree with you 100% adn I'm in the same boat. I suggest that if we
> > can't get people on board that we just go our own way.
>
> Whatever we come up with, I'm sure the classic OpenSSL API could
> be layered on top of it. Perhaps we could consider this effort an
> experimental refactoring of the OpenSSL codebase to improve its
> quality and reusability.
>
> > The problem is that at this point IMHO the product is designed to fit into
> > a client model and only very restrictive server models. I think basically
> > all we'll need to do is pull the crypto library and the protocol steps out
> > of the code and rewrite the protocol in a state engine where we simply
> > keep track of the progress of each connection.
>
> Agreed. I was under the impression that their existing state machine might
> be up to the task, though.
>
> > The biggest difficulty I think will be understanding the present
> > architecture of the project. I've looked inside and what I saw were reams
> > and reams of code with no internal documentation to speak of.
>
> That was my impression, too. I suggest we try to understand the existing
> OpenSSL state machine, and come up with the tiniest possible bit of
> code that puts the 'right' kind of interface on the existing functionality.
> (Any bigger rewrite, and we'd never finish, I fear.)
> After we've gone down that path a ways, we might decide it's easier
> to rewrite parts of it from scratch, but let's put that off at least
> until we know what we're doing :-)
>
> - Dan
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