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

From: Hu, Eric <EHu_at_directv.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:52:35 -0700

> > 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
>
I'm working on adding axTLS support right now and should have it ready in a week or two. It's even smaller than polarssl (<60k), but may not have all the features you're looking for. For instance, it only supports TLSv1 (ie, no SSLv3).

http://axtls.sourceforge.net/

Eric

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