Re: [radsecproxy] OpenSSL 1.1
Linus Nordberg
23 Sep
2016
23 Sep
'16
4:03 p.m.
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke(a)toke.dk> wrote
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:18:10 +0200:
Well, it compiles on openwrt at least (or rather, the master branch
does). However, pulling in two crypto libraries on an embedded platform
is not ideal. Would it be feasible to drop openssl entirely in favour of
libnettle? Or maybe something like mbedtls (formerly polarssl;
https://tls.mbed.org/)?
What are the issues with two libraries? Size? Assuming you're linking
statically I wouldn't expect the few libnettle functions to be too
expensive. But I haven't checked closely.
Nettle does crypto stuff but no TLS so something like mbedtls or any of
the other TLS libraries would indeed be needed. Depending on their API,
they might be more or less complicated to use as a drop in replacement
for OpenSSL. Please let me know if you get something working (but I have
to admit that I'm not overly eager on supporting another TLS library.)
And oh, beware of the multithreaded nature of this program!
I'm maintaining a radsecproxy package for
OpenWRT/LEDE which runs
openssl 1.0.2h. Keeping compatibility with that would be nice :)
The least painful way of supporting 1.0.2 that I've found is to stop
using libcrypto (from OpenSSL) for MD5 and HMAC(MD5).
The openssl11 branch [1] now uses libnettle instead. Please give it a
try with 1.0.2 and let me know if things still work well for you. Don't
forget to try to authenticate some users and please test both succesful
and failing authentication attempts. There's a chance for actual
breakage here.
[1]
https://git.nordu.net/?p=radsecproxy.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/openssl11