Greetings to everyone,

This is my first mail to this list so first of all I hope to avoid making too much of a fool of myself.

I am a student in computer science and I have been charged with the task of implementing a secure communication mechanism for a high level peer-to-peer middleware designed for use in the Oz language (www.mosart-oz.org). This peer-to-peer network is a structured network in which there should not necessarily be a direct TCP connexion between two communicating peers. So far it seems like a fine idea to use SSL over this network rather than directly over TCP as is usually done. Before damaging my health too much on this work I'd appreciate some advice from fine people such as many of you certainly are about the following questions:

How feasible is it to use OpenSSL's SSL library to generate the raw data that is to be sent through the transport layer independent of the latter's implementation ? And read this data on the other end...

Would it be a better idea to use OpenSSL's crypto library to handle cryptographic operations and certificates and reimplement the rest of SSL's behaviour according to it's specification ? (At least to the extent required for my piece of work)

Is there any known similar project, in which OpenSSL has been used to implement SSL over non-TCP connexions ?


Well that's it for now and I thank you all for your time,

Alain Damiral,

Université Catholique de Louvain - student,
alain.damiral'at'student.uclouvian.be
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