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Re: AmiSSL / OpenSSL updates to support TLSv1.1/1.2?
« on: October 25, 2014, 01:59:02 AM »
Aren't most IP stacks based largely on the BSD reference?  Even if written from scratch, I don't think IPv4 has changed much at all in recent years.

In any case, does RoadShow not count as recent development of IP stack for the Amiga??
 

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Re: AmiSSL / OpenSSL updates to support TLSv1.1/1.2?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2014, 07:08:46 PM »
Okay, so Amiga TCP/IP is aged.  Does it still work?  Will it work for a while?  At least long enough to ensure that data in-transit is secured?  At this point in the real world if the consensus is that Amiga should isolated from the Internet due to existing network deficiencies and should never be fixed, you might as well just wrap it up and put it in a box forever.  If a platform is going to be useable for more than just game playing, arguably out-dated graphic design, and word processing, it must have access to the outside world.  Anything is programmatically possible -- hell, you could implement SSL in 6502, it just might be unusably slow, but still possible -- so saying that something is "FAIL" or useless should not imply nor be inferred that it should not be done.

All things considered, I couldn't give two rats turds about IPv6.  That bell has been ringing for over 14 years and it's still just piss in the wind.  As it is, I can route my IPv6 network through an 6-to-4 gateway at Hurricane just fine.  Should we expect that the reverse will never be possible?  The experts out there may not think so or may not want it, but the market of users with older equipment not willing or able to upgrade will make that decision.  And where the market bucks the experts there is money to be made, so I suspect entrepreneurs will help fill the void.

(FWIW, since my network has a unified threat management device (they're really cheap these days, along the same price as any good business-class non-UTM firewall,) all of my secure connections are decrypted at the firewall which then makes the secure connection to the far end.  So for me the SSL/TLS issue is moot as the firewall will ultimately determine security heading out into the world.)

But, again, the arguments of IPv6 and IPv4 are off-topic for this thread, which is about getting TLS v1.1 and v1.2 support on the Amiga.
 

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Re: AmiSSL / OpenSSL updates to support TLSv1.1/1.2?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2016, 04:08:15 PM »
Very exciting, indeed.  This re-opens much usability with Amiga Internet utilities.