On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> Well, undocumented and OpenSSL tend to go hand in hand a lot. Or,
> well, it might be documented, but not in a useful way. I wouldn't
> count on it.
The OpenSSL code is some of the worst-formatted spaghetti code I've
ever seen, and the reason I know that is because whenever I try to do
anything with OpenSSL I generally end up having to read it, precisely
because, as you say, the documentation is extremely incomplete. I
hate to be critical of other projects, but everything I've ever done
with OpenSSL has been difficult, and I really think we should try to
get less dependent on it rather than more.
> I fear starting to use that is going to make it even harder to break
> out from our openssl dependency, which people do complain about at
> least semi-regularly.
+1.
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