Re: About BoringSSL, an OpenSSL fork - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On26 October 2015 at 00:59, Michael Paquier </span><span dir="ltr"
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target="_blank">michael.paquier@gmail.com</a>></span><spanstyle="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><a
href="https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/HEAD/PORTING.md"rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/HEAD/PORTING.md</a><br/> Looking at the porting section
manyroutines have changed compared to<br /> OpenSSL. I can't imagine this fork to become a complete replacement of<br
/>OpenSSL, but it may be worth considering an integration in Postgres<br /> code depending on the features it will have
(Curve25519,<br/> Ed25519 mentioned). Also since 9.4 the SSL code paths have been<br /> rearranged to allow more
implementationsto be done with other SSL<br /> libraries.<br /></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br
/></div><divclass="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">​​</div><div
class="gmail_extra"><divclass="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">​Quote:</div><div
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​</div>AlthoughBoringSSL is an open source
project,it is not intended for general use, <span style="line-height:21.56px">as OpenSSL is. We don’t recommend that
thirdparties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI
stability.</span><span
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">​Soundslike a subscription to a world of pain.​</div><br
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">​Geoff​</div></div></div>