Re: [Chicken-users] libcurl?

[F. Wittenberger]

Hi all,

my $ 0.02: once I faced a simillar situation when implementing SSL for
askemos.org.

Since the threading system of rscheme and chicken are simillar in a way,
one should consider that user level threads are hardly scheduled to
multiple processors, while kernel level processes do with ease.  Thus
delegating encryption into separate subprocesses could be beneficial.

Besides a security consideration: the isolation might also prevent
possible bugs in either chicken or opelssl/libcrypt to interfere in the
other one.

best regards

/Jörg

Am Donnerstag, den 29.09.2005, 10:00 +0000 schrieb Thomas Chust:
> Am 29.09.2005, 01:21 Uhr, schrieb Alex Shinn <address@hidden>:
> 
> > [...]
> > However, the docs[1] are incomplete to the point of being almost
> > non-existant, I haven't been able to find simple examples anywhere,
> > and the source is huge and dense.  But if you understand it I'd be
> > happy to help! :)
> > [...]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> this is precisely why I have been using cryptlib, which is very well  
> documented, instead. But cryptlib is infrequently updated, although it has  
> bugs as well of course, and it is not nearly as widespread as OpenSSL.
> 
> I will just try to dig into OpenSSL deeper to find a nice way of making it  
> work with CHICKEN. The man-pages have become better since I last browsed  
> through them, but they still resemble reverse engeneering guidelines more  
> than real documentation ;)
> 
> When I am programming this binding, I will probably try to make its  
> interface compatible to the SSL-API offered by PLT Scheme -- so if I'm  
> having trouble I can still consult the source of MzScheme.
> 
> cu,
> Thomas
> 
> 
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