Re: SSL support

[Christian Hopp]

On 19 Sep 2002, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Very cool! Oddly enough I'm also working with implementing SSL
> support, not for monit though but for my zervlet system and I thought
> about moving some code over to monit when I'm done. But this means I
> don't have to :-)
(-:

> 1) I'm learning SSL from this book http://www.opensslbook.com/ It's
> not a particulary good book, but okay and the only one about openssl.
> There are also code examples at the web-site, but also not particulary
> good..

And actually the site sucks. (-: I have found nothing that I can
use... for free.


> 2) I just browsed through your code (very fast) and I think you will
> need two things at least, properly seeding the openssl prng and Thread
> locking support since monit uses threads.

seeding: took you code
threads: also took your code and more

> The last one is tricky but I have enclosed some of my current code
> from zervlet, check out especially Crypto_start/Crypto_stop. It
> won't compile since there are some dependencies to other functions
> in the zervlet lib but will give you a good start on initializing
> the ssl library properly. You can use this code in monit if you want
> to, never mind the licensing header :-)

I gonna oversee it.(-:

> I'm doing it like this since I'm planing on using zervlet on Win32
> as well

"Danger" is your middle name... or better "insanity"? (-:

I have attached a new version which should be somehow, maybe...
hopefully a little bit threading safe.  Btw... why is monit
multithreadded?  I mean, it is obvious that monit IS multithreadded...
but why did you do it so.


It's late I wanna go home now... (-:

Christian

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