rust-tls-api vs mesalink

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rust-tls-api		mesalink
	Project
1	Mentions	2
49	Stars	1,492
-	Growth	0.0%
3.7	Activity	1.8
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Rust	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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rust-tls-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-tls-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-04.

LibreSSL Languishes on Linux
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2021

Just to add to your point.
Rustls is excellent, but has a Rust API and does not do I/O. Its a great alternative for Rust applications but, for C/C++ applications, the API wrappers are needed [1]
[1] https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-tls-api

mesalink

Posts with mentions or reviews of mesalink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-01.

Time to rewrite OpenSSL in Rust ?
3 projects | /r/rustjerk | 1 Nov 2022

See also: MesaLink and its successor TabbySSL
OpenSSL Security Advisory [25 March 2021]
2 projects | /r/linux | 27 Mar 2021

You can also use it in curl already, and apparently through MesaLink API compatiblity layer you can replace OpenSSL with it elsewhere.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rust-tls-api and mesalink you can also consider the following projects:

s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols

rustls-native-certs - Integration with OS certificate stores for rustls

rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust

proxyboi - A super simple reverse proxy with TLS support

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

sandwich - Sandwich is a multi-platform, multi-language, open-source library that provides a simple unified API for developers to use (multiple) cryptographic libraries in their applications.

rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/rustls/rustls]

tabbyssl - Previously MesaLink, TabbySSL is an OpenSSL compatibility layer for the Rust TLS stack.

shadow-tls - A proxy to expose real tls handshake to the firewall