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Re: Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Fri Oct 3 15:03:43 2003

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In-Reply-To: <3F7DB88C.B2C5A269@systemics.com> from "Ian Grigg" at Oct 03, 2003 01:57:32 PM
From: roy@rant-central.com (Roy M. Silvernail)

iang wrote:
> 
> Jill Ramonsky wrote:

> > It's worth summing up the design goals here, so nobody gets confused.
> > Trouble is, I haven't figured out what they should all be. The main
> > point of confusion/contention right now seem to be (1) should it be in C
> > or C++?,
> 
> C.  And write C++ wrappers or let someone else do it.

Yes!  Speaking from experience, it's far easier to write a C++ wrapper 
for a C lib than the other way around.  And as Ian said, it's probably
easier to get the implementation correct in C, at least as a first pass.
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