From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T20:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: SSLSocket - where does the encryption happen?

Hi Ilmari,

From: "Ilmari Heikkinen" <ilmari.heikkinen@gmail.com>
> On 1/2/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket (openssl/ssl.rb), and
>> also the code in drb/ssl.rb and webrick/ssl.rb ... trying to
>> understand where the actual encryption/decryption takes place.
> 
> If I'm not terribly mistaken, all the actual work takes place in the C
> extension.
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/ext/openssl/ossl_ssl.c
> <- there's the SSLSocket functions at least

Thanks much!  I should have realized... After all, the ruby-side SSLSocket
class has no initialize()

    class SSLSocket
      include Buffering
      include SocketForwarder
    end


Thanks,

Bill