[Dovecot] v2.1 memory usage
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Wed Nov 21 14:02:55 EET 2012
On 2012-11-12 2:31 PM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
> Openssl is a *massive* project and I'm unsure that gnutls is much
> smaller... We should assume that both are quite scary from a
> "security" point of view. Licensing is the main thing which divides
> them, gnutls is stated as GPL compatible (however, the nominal
> incompatibility of openssl seems difficult to understand?)
>
> OpenVPN integrated with PolarSSL and got Dutch government official
> approval for the combined package. I think elsewhere it's stated that
> openssl would not have been approved because something like the
> codebase was too large to inspect and sign off
> http://polarssl.org/news?item=0132
>
> I haven't worked with PolarSSL, so no idea, but it's massively smaller
> codebase is likely attractive if you are the kind of person who
> actually *does* security audits on the software you run in secure
> situations.
>
> Openssl is just a complete swiss army knife of tools!
Very interesting... I'd certainly be interested in switching to it, as
long as the most common tools are supported
Is it considered a drop in replacement for OpenSSL?
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Best regards,
Charles
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