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Re: LibreOffice uses SChannel and SecureTransport, please don't remove them

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From: Ilmari Lauhakangas via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:02:05 +0200

On 14.1.2025 16.48, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Ilmari Lauhakangas via curl-library wrote:
>
>> https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/14/secure-transport-support-in-
>> curl-is-on-its-way-out/ LibreOffice protests the removal of SChannel
>> and SecureTransport as we currently rely on them in our use of curl.
>
> Can you please elaborate on how exactly you rely on them and why it is
> hard/impossible for you to switch to another backend?

The main advantage is that users can use the OS UI to add self-signed
certificates and then presumably they work automatically with
LibreOffice. At the moment we don't know, if this could be pulled off
with OpenSSL as well.

Ilmari

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