OpenSSL or CDSA for Portable TLS?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday December 3, 2002 @06:15AM from the minimizing-work-at-the-source-level dept.

bfrog asks: "I'm looking for a portable C/C++ client & server TLS library for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. The license must be commercial-code-friendly. It seems like the choices are: the old standby OpenSSL; or CDSA . Apple makes a convincing argument for CDSA over OpenSSL in this PDF document , but I'm having trouble finding a mature CDSA implementation that's ready to go on all of these platforms. Perhaps I should use the best CDSA implementation for each given platform, and hope that the API's are compatible. That is, after all, the point of CDSA, right? Any suggestions?"

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Go with OpenSSL . . . by edward.virtually@pob · 2002-12-03 06:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

CDSA is another attempt by Apple to drain developers and users from truely open solutions, gaining them free development work on the one hand and lock-in on the other.