SSL/TLS sockets

[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 14 October 2007 5:41:23 pm Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to tell you that I'm working on getting functional SSL support 
> in a class called KTcpSocket that mimics QTcpSocket's and QSslSocket's API, 
> but with startTls() and common KDE settings support and the possibility to 
> add Fancy Stuff as needed. KSocketFactory will probably become obsolete.
> KTcpSocket is supposed to be an all-in-one stream (not datagram) socket where 
> encryption is just a setting.
> Note that the scope of this undertaking is larger than having SSL work again 
> (only) in KIO, for hopefully little extra effort.
> The class does not inherit QAbstractSocket, only QIODevice. Thiago suggested 
> the basic design and implemented a skeleton of some hundred lines to give me 
> a quick start, let's see how far I can get. Quite far I hope.
> The backend aka Engine will be theoretically (and hopefully in practice, too) 
> pluggable. At the moment I'm doing an engine using QCA::TLS. Justin Karneges, 
> QCA main developer, told me that he is planning to maintain it for quite some 
> time, and it has the features already implemented in a rather easy to use 
> way.
> 
Yippee!  Hooray!
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