Re: ceph + -lssl

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> I looked at libressl a bit.  It still has the same license emcumbrances
> as openssl.  So no real win there.  And, since it's not packaged as part
> of many linux distributions, the gpl/ssleay license incompatibility issue
> becomes a real problem here.  Hopefully a future version of libressl will
> adopt a plain bsd license.  I know they were working hard to discard
> the crufty openssl build system, a good thing.  When I worked with an
> earlier version of openssl (adding a new hash or encryption algorithm,
> I don't remember which today), I remember being disappointed at finding
> internal interfaces that just assumed various max sizes of things.  I hope
> the libressl folks work on making those things better too.
>
> I'm not familiar with google's "boringSSL".  Do you have some references
> for it?  I won't have the time to look at it right now - but I don't mind
> learning at least a bit more about it.  I see from wikipedia that it's
> yet another fork of openssl - will they fix the license issue?
>
> I did look (mostly superficially) at,
>         botan libressl gnutls matrixssl mbed wolfssl cryptlib nss
>         & apple's "secure transport"
> It was mostly superficial because my first question was "are there
> a lot of other people using this" aka "am I going to be debugging
> and supporting this myself"?

BoringSSL

https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/

This might also be worth a look:

https://github.com/awslabs/s2n

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Kyle Bader
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