[Dovecot] Support for PolarSSL?

Timo Sirainen
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:17:22 -0000

On 27.2.2013, at 23.15, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com>
wrote:

> Just curious if you ever thought about supporting other than just OpenSSL?
>
> PolarSSL looks really interesting, has no major dependencies and is very
lightweight compared to OpenSSL, GNUTLS or others...
>
> https://polarssl.org/
>
> I guess it could be a lot of work, or not, anyway, I'm just curious?

I initially tried to support both OpenSSL and GNUTLS, and it was a lot of work.
I'm not really looking forward to that again :) But I guess after v2.3 the
Dovecot's lib-ssl-iostream API might become stable enough that other
backends could be implemented just once without having to keep changing them..