Using LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL with GnuGk / H323Plus / PTLib
29 Jul
2014
29 Jul
'14
3:30 a.m.
Hi,
with the bugs recently found in OpenSSL, there is some concern how many more issues still lurk in the old and crufty OpenSSL code. There is a great effort by some OpenBSD developers to fork OpenSSL into "LibreSSL" (www.libressl.org) and clean up the code while keeping the public interface stable.
I did a quick check and can report that GnuGk / H323Plus / PTLib compile well with LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL. All I had to do was provide a pkg-config file. So now we have a choice which library to use.
I used LibreSSL Portable 2.0.3 for my test.
Another interesting project would be to use GnuTLS as a replacement, but thats going to require a number of code changes on our side.
Regards, Jan
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