Connection issues with Android Marshmallow
Arran Cudbard-Bell
a.cudbardb at freeradius.org
Fri Oct 16 19:01:24 CEST 2015
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Mathieu Simon (Lists) <matsimon.lists at simweb.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Am 16.10.2015 um 16:31 schrieb Alan DeKok:
>> On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:29 AM, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>> We use them because everything else is worse. :(
>>>
>>> LibreSSL ? :-)
>>
>> It's API compatible with OpenSSL, and it doesn't add new / better APIs.
>
> Concerning a new / better API in LibreSSL: The OpenBSD folks have the
> same / similar concerns bout the OpenSSL API. True, they have libssl for
> backwards-compatibility but have added a new libtls library trying to
> address these concerns.
>
> Their goal is to provide more simple API where an application can ask
> for a secure channel and libtls will do the reset - no need for the
> application to know and handle the gory details about TLS version etc. -
> that's their actual motivation. OpenBSD has started using libtls in
> tools of their base system for what I know and LibreSSL has become
> portable for quite some time.
We can't use it. All the functions it provides assume I/O over a file descriptor. We don't use file descriptors for EAP, we use record buffers.
-Arran
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