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Re: Anyone likes OpenSSL-QUIC ?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:38:35 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:

> I think OpenSSL should be focusing on fixing its performance problems rather
> than on a QUIC implementation that nobody is interested in.

I think this is a sentiment most of everyone (outside of the OpenSSL project)
would agree with.

> Personally, I think a Rust implementation would be better. Hopefully the
> people behind https://memorysafety.org can fund someone to work on
> stabilizing it and getting it used in distros.

There are several QUIC stacks written in Rust [1] and one of them, quiche, we
already have (experimental) support for in curl.

So far we have seen little demand for the Rust alternatives among (lib)curl
users.

[1] = https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations

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