RE: Kernel port of OpenSSL

2001-10-11 Thread David Schwartz
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:57:14 +0100, Andy Schneider wrote: The idea would be that if two such machines had SSL implemented in their kernel and both administrators had appropriately configured them, all communications between those two hosts could be encrypted transparently with no

Re: Kernel port of OpenSSL

2001-10-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
David Schwartz wrote: 1) IPsec already has the negotiation features that you would need. 2) IPsec acts below the TCP/UDP layer. Using SSL would make it very hard to precisely replicate TCP/UDP semantics leading to lots of subtle bugs and compatability problems I

Re: Kernel port of OpenSSL

2001-10-10 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Tom Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] ttangI was wondering if anyone has ever tried to port OpenSSL or portions ttang of it into the kernel (*nix). I posed this question on the dev mailing ttang list but got no response. Thanks. I haven't heard of OpenSSL being integrated into the kernel. I

Re: Kernel port of OpenSSL

2001-10-10 Thread David Schwartz
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:53:58 +0200 (MET DST), Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: I haven't heard of OpenSSL being integrated into the kernel. I wonder, what would the purpose be? The idea would be that if two such machines had SSL implemented in their kernel and both