OpenSSL 1.0.0a for AmigaOS

[futaura]

It's slightly confusing why anybody would somewhat waste their time porting OpenSSL, when it has already been ported natively in the form of AmiSSL.  AmiSSL is of course most commonly used by various apps, including those that need to support HTTPS including IBrowse and AWeb.  However, it is also supplied the OpenSSL command (which uses the AmiSSL shared libraries). The only problem is that AmiSSL hasn't been updated for a while and is based on OpenSSL 0.9.7g.

[futaura]

Does AmiSSL have a CLI?  That would be one good reason.

It does have the standard OpenSSL command, yes - probably something that most users are not aware of.

[futaura]

:shocked: well, you already provided some reasons yourself, so...

I also assume you'll wonder why anybody would somewhat waste their time porting OWB, NetSurf, or Firefox, when there is already IBrowse... :-/

And what's wrong with that?

Actually, that's not a fair comparison.  Would you agree that there is no point two developers each making their own Firefox port?  Likewise for OpenSSL... I was merely suggesting that it may have been a better idea for the author to work with the AmiSSL authors. Then OS4 users could benefit as well as 68k users, and everybody using IBrowse, AWeb, HTTPResume or whatever, will get the latest OpenSSL support too - not just users using the OpenSSL command line tool.