TLS Support in Busybox syslogd

[Harald van Dijk]

This was a rather misguided reply: busybox already has a TLS 
implementation. It can either use its extremely minimal implementation, 
good enough to send and receive data but not good enough to perform any 
validation, or it can spawn a helper process that calls openssl to 
handle TLS. These are used by busybox's wget to access HTTPS resources, 
and without them, wget would become less and less useful as more and 
more servers require the use of HTTPS.

To answer the original question, no, neither approach is currently 
supported in busybox's syslogd.

On 13/03/2021 17:52, Mike wrote:
> No offense intended, but are you serious? The code bloat from adding tls 
> support would completely invalidate the whole purpose of using busybox 
> in the first place. Surely, if you have the resources (flash, ram, cpu) 
> for any working tls implementation, you could just install ubuntu and 
> get on with it.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:52 PM Puranjay Pradhan 
> <puranjaya.pradhan at gmail.com <mailto:puranjaya.pradhan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi All,
> 
>     Does anyone know if TLS is supported in Busybox syslogd ?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Puranjaya