Re: TLS API discussion

Christopher Allen <[email protected]> Tue, 20 May 1997 11:00:07 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.apps-tls
Organization Consensus Development Corporation <http://www.consensus.com/>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 12:04 AM -0700 5/20/97, Chris Newman wrote:
>So how's the SSLeay API?  If it's good we could just document that and
>standardize it.

I'm not so hot on the SSLeay API. I'm not sure that I'd be completely happy
even if we standardized on the SSLRef 3.0 API (which we wrote). There are
just so many platform specific considerations -- SSLRef 3.0 API had to be
somewhat of a least common denominator to minimize cross platform issues.

What do you think of the SSLRef 3.0 API? It is also the base for our SSL
Plus API. In any case, if there is going to be a standards effort on an TLS
API, we'll be participating.

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