Dumb newbie question, but does it handle TLS 1.3 okay?
I was using my Pismo G3 on the weekend and frustrated at how much of the web was inaccessible just because Mac OS 10.4 lacks modern TLS. The machine itself worked quite well with Opera for sites that were still HTTP compatible. If you've solved that for 68k machines, maybe it will be possible to get it working for software on PPC machines too.
It seems like the continued evolution of TLS is a huge barrier to retrocomputing with current networks. Relatedly, I happened to be writing some TLS code on a bit of a side project and I was curious on what old OSs I could get it on with minimal effort. I found the builtin SChannel on Windows XP for example cannot interact with www.google.com at all, or even some of my own TLS-enabled hosts that I maintain myself.
For projects with source available or that you're hacking on, it's not very hard to build libressl. It's a shame that some of these older OSs probably can't have support bolted on for 1st party APIs. Of course, they also are probably full of security holes and you probably don't want them on the public internet anyway.
Another barrier some day will be that those old systems are ipv4-only.
> It's a shame that some of these older OSs probably can't have support bolted on for 1st party APIs.
What first-party APIs? As far as I'm aware, classic Mac OS never had native SSL/TLS support -- every application which needed it (mostly web browsers in that era) included their own implementation.
