Status of OpenSSL 1.1.1

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:05:28AM -0400, Eric McCorkle wrote:
> On 08/01/2018 09:02, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 12:31 PM Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net
> > <mailto:eric at metricspace.net>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi folks,
> > 
> >     I'm wondering what's the status of OpenSSL 1.1.1 integration into base?
> >     More specifically, is there a repo or a branch that's started the
> >     integration?  I'm aware of the wiki page and the list of port build
> >     issues, but that seems to be based on replacing the base OpenSSL with a
> >     port build (similar to the way one replaces it with LibreSSL).
> > 
> >     I have some work I'd like to do that's gating on sorting out the
> >     kernel/loader crypto situation, and I'd very much like to see OpenSSL
> >     1.1.1 get merged, so I can start to look into doing that.
> > 
> > 
> > There are patches to use bear SSL for the loader. OpenSSL is simply too
> > large to use due to limits the loader operates under.
> 
> I was going to look into the feasibility of doing something like what
> LibreSSL does with portable, where they extract a subset of the full
> library designed to be embedded in the kernel, loader, etc.
> 
> I think it ought to be possible to do something like that, but it really
> ought to be done in a tree with 1.1.1 integrated.
> 

It wouldn't be terribly easy or effective, IMO.  OpenSSL wasn't designed
with such modularity in mind.

-Ben