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RE: [lwip-devel] SSL for lwIP (new project?)
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Zimman, Chris |
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RE: [lwip-devel] SSL for lwIP (new project?) |
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:30:20 -0400 |
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.
--Chris
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:24 PM
To: lwIP Developers
Subject: [lwip-devel] SSL for lwIP (new project?)
I searched Google, but couldn't find any information on an SSL
implementation for lwIP.
The one refernce I did find was that SSL was probably too big for most
embedded systems. Having written a proof-of-concept SSL implementation
on a 20MHz 8032 and watched it take 5 minutes to do one-half of a
diffie-hellman key exchange, I can tell you this is true for the very
low end.
However, many modern embedded micros (such as the BlackFin) have
sufficient power to do these computations in seconds instead of minutes
and a light-weight SSL implementation is possible (and sometimes even
required) for products based on such.
So, since Kadak wants $25,000 for their KwikNet SSL (plus $11,000 for
basic TCP/IP), I'm looking to add SSL to the lwIP system.
Is there anybody out there interested in working on this with me?
If I can get some help implementing it, then we'll release the finished
work under the same license as lwIP itself: free for everyone to use.
If I have to do it all myself on company time, then it's pretty likely
that my boss will tell me to keep it proprietary.
My qualifications: I've written a complete TCP/IP implementation for
our 8032-based product line, including IPsec, IKE, and SSL (the last two
being too slow to be practical). However, I currently know zero about
lwIP specifically.
Here's hoping! ...
Brian
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