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I'm surprised there are no comments yet... I haven't heard of S2n until reading this post, but it sounds like it could potentially replace OpenSSL usage?
by geerlingguy 10y ago
I'm surprised there are no comments yet... I haven't heard of S2n until reading this post, but it sounds like it could potentially replace OpenSSL usage?
- ronnier 10y agoHere's the 2 year old thread about S2n https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804349
- ppoint 10y agoI think it's relying on libcrypto from openssl, at least that was the case when it came out. E.g. it implements TLS/SSL protocols only, no crypto. Not sure if that's changed and they implemented crypto as well.
- frutiger 10y agoFrom a brief perusal of the source code[0], it still does. It makes this claim on the `README.md` seem rather disingenuous: > One of the key benefits to s2n is far less code surface, with approximately 6,000 lines of code (compared to OpenSSL’s approximately 500,000 lines). 0: https://github.com/awslabs/s2n/blob/master/crypto/s2n_dhe.h#L18 https://github.com/awslabs/s2n/blob/master/crypto/s2n_dhe.h#...
- tyingq 10y agognutls is also available.