On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> wrote:

> The big question we have to answer first is, how do we want to support SSL?
> Do we want to use an existing, well-tested, well scrutinized SSL
> implementation and FFI bind to it? If so, which one and why? If not, are we
> comfortable enough with writing a correct SSL implementation? That's very
> hard.

Why write your own? We could try to come up with a list of
requirements, so every HTTPS library on Hackage could be evaluated. Is
anyone knowledgeable of cabal-install interested in composing such a
list?

"Write our own" as in "use a pure Haskell implementation of SSL from Hackage". This has been suggested when this question came up in the past and I'm skeptical to that from a security perspective.