18 Nov
2020
18 Nov
'20
4:07 p.m.
On Nov 16, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
If you have an older pre-C99 system, I've backported a TLS 1.2 library to gcc
versions as early as 2.5 as long as it has 64-bit ints (long long, usually)
and stdarg.h.
https://github.com/classilla/cryanc
Great work, Cameron!
Another option for these systems is mbedTLS, originally by ARM. It only requires C89, it
can serve as a replacement for SSL libraries that follow the standard API signatures, it
is also quite easy to build (a little more complicated than Crypto Ancienne, though not by
much--you just need to examine its GNUmakefile to derive a build system for whatever OS
you're targeting), and it's fairly complete.
One advantage of mbedTLS is that it works with libcurl, libssh2, etc. already so if you
need to build more such things you have a good basis to start from.
At some point MacSSH may use it. Or maybe the current maintainer will try cryanc. :)
-- Chris