Re: Secure-by-default networking

From: Bjorn Reese (breese_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-09-11 08:47:08

On 9/11/19 1:35 AM, Alex Christensen via Boost wrote:
> At https://github.com/boostorg/asio/pull/283 <https://github.com/boostorg/asio/pull/283> I’ve attached a proof-of-concept which explores making ASIO secure by default. The C++ committee is discussing what secure-by-default networking would look like in the soon to be published papers P1860 and P1861. Since the C++ Networking TS is based on ASIO, this seems like a good place to try things out.

Please don't. There are plenty of networking applications that do not
use SSL. Use ssl::stream if you want secure-by-default.