From: "Rob Withers" <rwithers12@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 05:09:17 -0500
Subject: Re: [e-lang] Serialization in Squeak-E (was: MAC calculation)

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From: "Cees de Groot" <cg@cdegroot.com> 
Newsgroups: lists.e-lang
To: <e-lang@mail.eros-os.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: [e-lang] Serialization in Squeak-E (was: MAC calculation)


> Withers, Robert <rwithers@quallaby.com> said:
> >> SSL support
> >
> >err....no, I don't think it does...yet
> >
> Nope, no SSL. VisualWorks has an all-Smalltalk SSL implementation, but it took

Yes, VW does and it is amazing how familiar the SSLHandshake class is to
me...  However.    I should point out that X509Certificates are the most
unwieldy, irritating things in existence.  It reminds me of walking ELF
formats.

> them quite some time to write. For Squeak, the best option is probably an
> openssl-based plugin (which shouldn't be that hard to produce, and people are
> discussing SSL support over on the Squeak list, so...)

With the x509 changeset, the crypto package from Luciano, and some tweaking
of the startup connection code, we could probably build SSL. 

cheers,
robert 

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