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From:
Yuki Kimoto
Date:
December 3, 2021 00:39
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: support httpsout-of-the-box
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2021-12-2 12:17 Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:

> On 2021-12-01 5:54 p.m., Ricardo Signes wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, at 8:08 PM, Yuki Kimoto wrote:
> >> Suppose the Perl core contains Net::SSLeay.
> >>
> >> In this case, Net::SSLeay is already installed without the OpenSSL
> library and
> >> the tests of Net::SSLeay are not yet done.
> >>
> >> How do we test for correctness of behavior of Net::SSLeay?
> >
> > We would only build, test, and install Net::SSLeay if openssl was
> available.
>
> There is another important thing to consider in this discussion, which is
> the
> ability for core to use alternatives to OpenSSL.
>
>
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https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSLeay

Net::SSLeay supports the following libssl implementations:

Any stable release of OpenSSL in the 0.9.8 - 1.1.1 branches, except for
OpenSSL 0.9.8 - 0.9.8b.

Any stable release of LibreSSL in the 2.0 - 3.1 series.
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Current Net::SSLeay supports LibreSSL as an OpenSSL alternative .

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