From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2010-12-17T08:17:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Using OpenSSL in Ruby

On Dec 15, 2010, at 12:16, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>> You could create a SocketPair, and demux the TLS stuff into that. You
>> would need to beware of it blocking, so perhaps run the TLS stuff in a
>> separate thread.
>> 
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/26d3538da0410b8b/fdc3c5c6686ceb49?lnk=gst&q=Socket.pair&rnum=2&hl=en#fdc3c5c6686ceb49
>> 
>> For regular TLS using a socket, ruby openssl is pretty simple. There's
>> code in ruby-ldapserver which does it.
> 
> Thanks, Brian.  Sadly, I require non-blocking I/O and a
> single-threaded app.  I'm debating now whether or not to write a bio
> wrapper Ruby extension in C and use that...  *sigh*

If you do this, please let me know.  I can help integrate it into Ruby's OpenSSL binding.