RE: [lwip-devel] SSL for lwIP (new project?)

[Ireland, Richard]

Brian White:
> 
> > Have you looked at OpenSSL?  It's used on tons of embedded
platforms. 
> > IMO, SSL doesn't really belong as part of the IP stack.
> 
> I know it well.  It's also huge as it supports everything.  
> It might be possible to trim it down, but I don't expect so.
> 
> SSL is part of the IP "OSI" stack; it's just at layer #6, 
> "presentation" (i.e. above "session" and below "application").

You should look into DropBear
(http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html).  It's very
configurable, rather small, works well in embedded Linux, and uses a
MIT-style license.

-- 
Rich Ireland
Embedded Software Engineer
http://www.dbxpro.com