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Re: stripping out unneccesary parts of libcrypto for smallest footprint possible

From: Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:02:51 -0600

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:38 AM, RHYS TWELVES wrote:

> Unfortunately, the memory footprint of a cut-down (no-asm, no-des, no-dsa,
> no-md2, no-rc2, no-rc4, no-cast, no-bf, no-krb5, no-hw) libcrypto is still
> too much ~800kb.

Depending on your licensing requirements, you might have a look at polarssl.
Libcurl can be built to use it instead of openssl, and it weighs only
around 200kb.

http://polarssl.org/

 - Jeff
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