C++ API for SSL on SunOS 5.5

[Doug McIntyre]

[email]josesony@rediffmail.com[/email] (Sony Jose) writes:

>I'm a Java programmer who need to find out whether any standard C++
>API is available for SSL. We are using SunOS 5.5 (an upgrade won't be
>funded). I'm posting this query after making the following attempts to
>get the information I need:
>1. Checked the /usr/include/sys header files for anything that looked
>like SSL
>2. Searched google (both web and usenet)
>3. Searched Sun's Solaris documentation on the web
>4. Asked a few colleagues who have C++ experience

Just to be a little pendantic here..
You are using an OS that existed before SSL did.

>So far, I have not been successful in finding the API. In fact, I have
>almost reached the conclusion that only 3rd party API (like OpenSSL)
>are available and no standard ones are available on the Unix
>platforms.

But having went off a little above. Sun does have some SSL libs but
they only come in with optional packages. They haven't bundled it in
later OS base packages so they don't really have a standard API that
is guaranteed to be around in modern versions of the OS.

OpenSSL is effectively the only standard on the Unix platforms
now-a-days.

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Doug McIntyre [email]merlyn@visi.com[/email]
Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
Vector Internet Services, Inc.

[Sony Jose]

Hello Doug,

Thank you for the information.

Regards,
Sony Jose.