[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/openvpn: add option to use mbed TLS instead of OpenSSL

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 16 May 2020 00:03:10 +0300
Ed Spiridonov <edo.rus at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The idea of using select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL if !BR2_PACKAGE_MBEDTLS
> > was to keep the current behavior, i.e be backward compatible.  
> 
> Does it make sense?
> If OpenSSL is selected, it will be used as a crypto backend. So any
> build based on an existing .config remains the same.

What you say will work if:

 (1) Your .mk file tests BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL and uses openssl if set,
     before using mbedtls

 (2) Users are using full .config and not defconfig files. Indeed, a
     defconfig file today that has BR2_PACKAGE_OPENVPN=y will not have
     BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL=y, because this is implied by
     BR2_PACKAGE_OPENVPN=y. So such users would transition from using
     OpenSSL as the crypto backend for openvpn to mbedtls.

I don't have a very strong feeling on this. I agree that on the other
hand, it's good to use a smaller crypto library by default if possible.

Thomas
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