From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2010-08-08T09:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for good Ruby OpenSSL TLS docs

On Aug 7, 11:28 am, "Aaron D. Gifford" <astound...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a custom TCP protocol that currently runs plaintext/cleartext
> to which I want to add something akin to SMTP's STARTTLS.  The scripts
> use Ruby's TCPSockets.  The protocol will for the most part remain
> unencrypted, but when client or server requests that TLS begin, I need
> to take the existing TCPSocket and initiate TLS over it.
>
> So...  any pointers to good Ruby OpenSSL docs?  

Ruby's openssl is a very basic wrapper around the OpenSSL library and
I haven't found much good documentation for either.

I'd first look in the samples that come with the Ruby source code. In
the source distribution, check out sample/openssl/echo_cli.rb and
echo_svr.rb. The server uses a TCPSocket, but between the example and
the TCPSocket code, it shouldn't be hard to work out what to do.

Jeremy