Re: Anyone likes OpenSSL-QUIC ?

Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:38:35 +0200 (CEST)
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:

> I think OpenSSL should be focusing on fixing its performance problems rather 
> than on a QUIC implementation that nobody is interested in.

I think this is a sentiment most of everyone (outside of the OpenSSL project) 
would agree with.

> Personally, I think a Rust implementation would be better.  Hopefully the 
> people behind https://memorysafety.org can fund someone to work on 
> stabilizing it and getting it used in distros.

There are several QUIC stacks written in Rust [1] and one of them, quiche, we 
already have (experimental) support for in curl.

So far we have seen little demand for the Rust alternatives among (lib)curl 
users.

[1] = https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations

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