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Re: Anyone likes OpenSSL-QUIC ?

From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 12:57:32 -0400

On 10/2/25 03:38, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> 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

I think the main beneficiaries would be users of Linux distros, who would
get a more memory safe stack without having to change the applications that
link to curl.

Those who use libcurl themselves are probably significantly less likely to
care.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)




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