[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: tls, native TLS/SSL protocolimplementation

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Tue Oct 12 08:35:53 EDT 2010


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On 10/11/10 04:06 , Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> While I agree with the potential benefits, I also worry that you will
> end up making something that is far less well tested in practice. For
> widely used and fairly low-level libraries like gnutls, openssl and
> zlib, I'm just skeptical that the benefits outweigh the risks and costs.

I see your point, but I would be prepared to trust a clean, typesafe (and
especially if it's pure) Haskell implementation over the Cthulhu's-tentacles
that is openssl.  :)

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