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Re: Adding support for BoringSSL

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:46:07 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Leith Bade wrote:

> We use libcurl in this project so I followed on from Daniel's earlier work
> (http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/08/05/libressl-vs-boringssl-for-curl/) to
> add support for BoringSSL.

Thanks for your work!

You'll see that I modified your patch slightly to make it smaller and use the
#define to empty-macros approach just to avoid #ifdefs within code a little
more.

BoringSSL has an incompatible DES API with missing functions. It doesn't seem
to have the MD4 functions and it lacks PCKS12 support.

With two additional commits I made curl build and link fine with BoringSSL,
as-is.

> * Look at how best to print/report BoringSSL version
> - BoringSSL does not have "versions", I have been using git commit hashes
> to track BoringSSL versions in our project

If they don't have any identifiers upstream then I don't think we can just
invent something. It may of course be a subtle signal about how sensible it is
to base something on this...

> * Integrate BoringSSL detection into configure.ac and correctly handle
> the missing openssl/ui.h and openssl/engine.h headers (and set the
> relevant #defines)

I took a shot at it and it now says "BoringSSL" in the configure summary.

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