[Net-ssleay-devel] Re: Net::SSLeay

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Sampo and Matt,

On Friday 27 January 2006 01:01, sampo at symlabs.com wrote:
> Matt Herbert writes:
> > Hello Sampo,
> >
> > I am working on authenticating on wirless networks using PEAP methods.
> > I've started working on Perl modules to handle the PEAP protocol. Part of
> > the PEAP protocol uses a TLS tunnel (wrapped in PEAP packets, which are
> > wrapped in Radius packets) to actually transmit usernames and passwords.
>
> Effectively you are replacing TCP with PEAP.
>
> OpenSSL can handle TLS to and from memory buffers. Then you just
> fill and consume these buffers with your own I/O code.
>
> However, the perl Net::SSLeay probably does not support this
> out of box. 

Actually, it does, thanks to Sampo. We have several products that use 
Net::SSLeay with memory buffers from where we perform IO as PEAP over Radius. 

Cheers.

> It is geared towards stream abstraction provided 
> by Unix file descriptors.
>
> At any rate, the Net::SSLeay maintainership and mailinglist
> are no longer with me. Please see
>
> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/net-ssleay/
> net-ssleay-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
>  --Sampo
>
> > I know very little about TLS, and what I am hoping you can tell me, is if
> > (in your opinion) it would be possible for me to use Net::SSLeay to
> > handle the TSL part of the connection? I can fairly easily take the whole
> > frame of TLS data out of the PEAP layer ... but is there a way I can pass
> > that chunk directly into NET::SSLeay?
> >
> > Any pointers you could give me would be awesome, and extremley helpful.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Matt
>
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