Choosing an implementation language

[Eric Rescorla]

Tyler Close <tyler at waterken.com> writes:

> On Thursday 02 October 2003 09:21, Jill Ramonsky wrote:
> > I was thinking of doing a C++ implentation with classes and
> > templates and stuff.  (By contrast OpenSSL is a C
> > implementation). Anyone got any thoughts on that?
> 
> Given the nature of recent, and past, bugs discovered in the
> OpenSSL implementation, it makes more sense to implement in a
> memory-safe language, such as python, java or squeak. Using a VM
> hosted language will limit the pool of possible users, but might
> create a more loyal user base.

There's already a Java SSL with a simple API:
http://www.rtfm.com/puretls/

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr at rtfm.com]
                http://www.rtfm.com/

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