Re: [MiNT] howto use SSL ?

[Pierre Ton-That <ptonthat@club-internet.fr>]

Bonsoir et merci Ole,

- thanks for the url of NetSurf sources: too big, but I will study the 
openssl inside.
- the old cabssl.ovl is very usefull to learn how to handle SSL connections.
- thanks also for the polarssl. Very instructive for me (there's a mail 
client test, exactly what I intend to to), but I think I'll use openssl.

My goal is to handle secure connections within an email client.
SMTP authentification is asked, but some of them requires STARTTLS or 
even SSL/TLS.

Since, I code with GFA Basic, I'll need to make a LDG library from openssl.
I did this with ZIP files handle for my Total Commander crappy clone, 
with the zLib -> deflate.ldg
Had/has anyone a same project?

The MD5 hash method is needed for some SMTP-AUTH, I saw one in MiNT 
sources: is it possible to use it via system function, or is it only for 
the OS?

Regards,
Pierre


Le 11/11/12 21:10, Ole a écrit :
> Hello Pierre,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 11.11.2012, 16:25 +0100 schrieb Pierre Ton-That 
> <ptonthat@club-internet.fr>:
>
> > Someone has done a useful job there:
> >
> > http://atarimint.blogspot.fr/2010/05/openssl-100-for-68000-68020-60-colfire.html 
>
> OpenSSL 1.x is also available in the netsurf SDK. Also, it is compiled 
> for coldfire.
>
> http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/toolchains/
>
> > I also looked in the cabssl.ovl sources: it appears openssl is used,
> > but le libssl is compiled within the .ovl.
>
> Don't know anything about it, but I wouldn't use it - it's too old.
>
> > Is there a shared library (LDG, SLB, XDD ?) or most programs used
> > under MiNT use SSL in their own code?
>
> Not any that I know of, each program which uses SSL is linked statically
> agains an SSL library.
> If you want to use SSL - use either OpenSSL or PolarSSL. PolarSSL is much
> smaller and AFAIK it also should compile well with AHCC (as long as 
> you don't
> need to include network code - which is not so easy to access from 
> AHCC - because of
> missing mintlib).
>
> PolarSSL:
> http://polarssl.org
>
> (If you just want to have some special encryption or hashing method, 
> just include that
> file into your project, PolarSSL is modular and also intended to be 
> included just partially)
>
> Greets,
> Ole