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Re: LibreOffice uses SChannel and SecureTransport, please don't remove them
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From: Noel Grandin via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:46:57 +0200
Hi
Sorry for the weird reply formatting, joining this discussion late.
> From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:26:27 +0100 (CET)
> Forgive me, but this just says you use SecureTransport today and you don't
> even know if you can switch over to OpenSSL without losing functionality.
> That's a pretty weak argument if you ask me.
Well yes, we're a very small team of volunteers with a very large product.
That means we have extremely limited coverage for any area of expertise.
We switched from other libraries to using CURL because of the myriad of
CURL backends, and to reduce the support burden on us.
So yes, we are asking for your forbearance in this regard :-)
> But I can help you out and say that OpenSSL does not natively support
> accessing the Apple OSes native certificate store. There needs to be code
> added for this.
I know (for a fact) there is no-one currently in our loosely coupled-team
that has the combination expertise of crypto API and macOS development.
I will ask if anyone is willing to tackle this, but it likely take quite
some time
(developing the code, getting it upstreamed, getting that into a release,
pulling that release into LibreOffice, getting a version of LibreOffice
out).
I understand that using this backend is non-ideal, but it would be nice if
it could be maintained for the benefit of our small group of mac users.
Regards, Noel Grandin (LibreOffice committer, but no authority for speak
for the others as a whole)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:46:57 +0200
Hi
Sorry for the weird reply formatting, joining this discussion late.
> From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:26:27 +0100 (CET)
> Forgive me, but this just says you use SecureTransport today and you don't
> even know if you can switch over to OpenSSL without losing functionality.
> That's a pretty weak argument if you ask me.
Well yes, we're a very small team of volunteers with a very large product.
That means we have extremely limited coverage for any area of expertise.
We switched from other libraries to using CURL because of the myriad of
CURL backends, and to reduce the support burden on us.
So yes, we are asking for your forbearance in this regard :-)
> But I can help you out and say that OpenSSL does not natively support
> accessing the Apple OSes native certificate store. There needs to be code
> added for this.
I know (for a fact) there is no-one currently in our loosely coupled-team
that has the combination expertise of crypto API and macOS development.
I will ask if anyone is willing to tackle this, but it likely take quite
some time
(developing the code, getting it upstreamed, getting that into a release,
pulling that release into LibreOffice, getting a version of LibreOffice
out).
I understand that using this backend is non-ideal, but it would be nice if
it could be maintained for the benefit of our small group of mac users.
Regards, Noel Grandin (LibreOffice committer, but no authority for speak
for the others as a whole)
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