[Dovecot] Support for PolarSSL?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 28 16:17:22 EET 2013


On 27.2.2013, at 23.15, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:

> Just curious if you ever thought about supporting other than just OpenSSL?
> 
> PolarSSL looks really interesting, has no major dependencies and is very lightweight compared to OpenSSL, GNUTLS or others...
> 
> https://polarssl.org/
> 
> I guess it could be a lot of work, or not, anyway, I'm just curious…

I initially tried to support both OpenSSL and GNUTLS, and it was a lot of work. I'm not really looking forward to that again :) But I guess after v2.3 the Dovecot's lib-ssl-iostream API might become stable enough that other backends could be implemented just once without having to keep changing them..



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