Version compatibility issues - Re: openssl development work / paid

[Jan Just Keijser]

Just for the record:

On 26/03/21 09:51, Embedded Devel wrote:
> i now have a second developer looking at this, so hoping he can sort 
> it all out.
>
[...]

I was that second developer and even though 'Embedded Devel' listed this 
as "paid" work and even though he made repeated promises about following 
up on payment, I never did receive payment.

I checked the email address and IP addresses used for this job and found 
nothing terribly wrong. My conclusion is that either someone hijacked an 
email address - meaning that Optimcloud is not a very *safe* company to 
do business with -  or that 'Embedded Devel' at Optimcloud simply thinks 
he can get away with this - meaning that Optimcloud is not a very 
*trustworthy* company to do business with.

You have been warned.

JJK


On 26/03/21 09:51, Embedded Devel wrote:
> i believe this was all from back in the 0.9x days, the code in 
> question is close to 10+/- years old
>
> if everyone would look at the email thread  re: "ssl client write / 
> server accept seems broken"
>
> some might see more of the issue i am facing, i have has 1 person look 
> at this and he believes
>
> quote "
>
> This looks like using *very* outdated OpenSSL API. Hence the SSL
> client (and server) code needs to ported to work with more recent
> versions OpenSSL and make use of TLS methods instead of SSL methods.
>
> For testing you could try to build OpenSSL with the old SSL3 support
> enabled (we don't even support that at all in OpenWrt any longer, but
> should work to build manually).
> Because ssl_undefined_function is most likely a result of:
> Disabled features:
> ...
>     ssl3                    [default] OPENSSL_NO_SSL3
>     ssl3-method             [default] OPENSSL_NO_SSL3_METHOD
> ...
>
> If you find someone very familiar with OpenSSLs API (I've used it, more
> than once, but it's not what I'm doing every day), this can be done in
> a few days. I'd probably need a week for this and I'm not particularly
> keen on it, there are things I'm better with which are waiting as well."
>
> i now have a second developer looking at this, so hoping he can sort 
> it all out.
>