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Re: OpenSSL < v3 ?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:53:00 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025, Patrick Schlangen wrote:

> how would this affect the ability to use aws-lc, which seems to aim at being
> API compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.1? (This might have changed meanwhile?)
>
> Right now it works well with curl, and it would be quite sad if this stops
> to work, given the performance issues of OpenSSL 3.x. [1]

Oh, that's an excellent point! Thanks, I hadn't considered that angle.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to rock that boat too much. aws-lc has sailed up as the
best performing OpenSSL forks while also shipping modern features fast.

If keeping aws-lc support means we also keep OpenSSL 1.1 support then I figure
we do that.

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