[Commotion-dev] Any use for libcyassl?

[Will Hawkins]

I will, as usual, agree with Dan. There are several packages that we 
compile from scratch that typically require SSL but we specifically 
compile them without that support. For the routing and application 
announcement signing we use the nacl library provided by the Serval code.

Let's have Seamus chime in on his use of SSL before making any further 
moves.

Thanks for the note on this, Ben. Any place we can save space is good!

Will

On 05/21/2013 01:28 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> Besides the LuCI web interface, I can't think of any other current or
> proposed uses for SSL on the openwrt nodes. I heard that Seamus was
> creating some instructions for going through the quick-start over a
> wireless AP with SSL turned on, so users can understand what the
> self-signed cert warning means. Maybe he can chime in with more
> details...
>
> On Tue 21 May 2013 12:36:32 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I have managed to successfully compile and run an updated copy
>> (v2.6.0) of the cyassl embedded SSL implementation, and furthermore
>> have libcurl / curl link to that instead of libopenssl.
>>
>> If you have to use SSL (which is recommended when you want to connect
>> to a remote service, e.g. a dashboard), libcyassl saves you 500Kbytes+
>> of flash space over libopenssl:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 105802 May 18 22:37
>> bin/ar71xx/packages/libcyassl_2.6.0-1_ar71xx.ipk
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 637545 May 18 23:14
>> bin/ar71xx/packages/libopenssl_1.0.1e-1_ar71xx.ipk
>>
>> Although, Commotion doesn't using openssl or cyassl for anything in
>> particular yet, besides the onboard web-server uhttpd, do you plan to
>> build any service which will require SSL?  If so, I've cyassl +
>> libcurl patches to share.
>>
>> --
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>>
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