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RE: Want to contribute SMTP AUTH configuration

From: Sune Ahlgren <sune_ahlgren_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:51:24 +0200

All our products are embedded and they happily use openssl.

> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:54:21 +0200
> From: daniel_at_haxx.se
> To: curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: Want to contribute SMTP AUTH configuration
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Paul Romero wrote:
>
> > What you wrote is accurate. However, using OpenSSL is not practical for
> > software that needs to be portable enough to work in embedded environments.
> > It takes too much memory.
>
> Perhaps, yes.
>
> I work with embedded systems in my daily work. I've worked with embedded
> systems with 4GB of memory (or more). I've also had embedded systems using
> 32MB of RAM and they've managed just fine to run openssh servers built with
> OpenSSL so I think such a blanket statement is highly misleading.
>
> If you have a very tiny embedded environment then yes, you need to make sure
> you get everything done as small as possible so that you can cram everything
> into the little thing. Then OpenSSL might give you some headaches.
>
> In my experience, the LGPL license of gcrypt is usually what bothers people
> more in embedded systems than the size of OpenSSL...
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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