Re: [MiNT] howto use SSL ?

[Ole <ole@monochrom.net>]

Am Montag, den 12.11.2012, 19:55 +0100 schrieb Pierre Ton-That 
<ptonthat@club-internet.fr>:

> - thanks for the url of NetSurf sources: too big, but I will study
> the openssl inside.

It uses curl to establish https connections, so there is not much
difference between http and https connections. I just wanted to
post an link to an coldfire OpenSSL version...

> - 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.

I would go for PolarSSL - OpenSSL is so big and you need to compile it 
with GCC.
What is your point for OpenSSL?

> 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?

It is also available inside PolarSSL, I believe the md5 functions you 
are talking about
are inside the kernel and so, they are not accessible from your code 
the easy way...

Greets,
Ole