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VbAsyncSocket

Visual Basic 6.02021–2024

wqweto / VbAsyncSocket

VbAsyncSocket

Sockets with pure VB6 impl of TLS encryption

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Sockets with pure VB6 impl of TLS encryption

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wqweto·Oct 12, 2024

Btw, VbAsyncSocket[1] project already supports TLS 1.3 on NT 4.0 and Win9x[2] [1] https://github.com/wqweto/VbAsyncSocket/releases [2] https://dl.unicontsoft.com/upload/pix/ss_vbasyncsocket_win9x...

In Running WolfSSL and Curl on Windows 2000

aeyes·Jun 27, 2023

I wonder if it is possible to make https://github.com/wqweto/VbAsyncSocket compile on Visual Basic 4, then you could target 16 bit. There is already a VB5 branch.

In Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows

ianhawes·May 10, 2023

What is impressive (or hilarious) is that someone opened an issue because it wasn't compatible with VB5[0]. The maintainer added a VB5 branch which apparently fixed the issues. [0] https://github.com/wqweto/VbAsyncSocket/issues/4

In A TLS 1.3 stack written in Visual Basic 6

ronsor·May 10, 2023Submission

A TLS 1.3 stack written in Visual Basic 6

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fps_doug·Dec 20, 2021

You are right. What is a good idea however, is to implement a TLSv1.3 library in Visual Basic 6[1], that doesn't have any external dependencies, by embedding machine code for AES encryption generated with MSVC in the source code, that you patch into memory at runtime, by using all sorts of tricks to do things in VB6 that you aren't supposed to do in VB6. Yes, that VB6, that was released in 1998, superseded by VB.NET in 2002. Because Microsoft has just announced it's supported on Windows 11.[2] So when developing new software, why not use something future-proof? ;) [1] https://github.com/wqweto/VbAsyncSocket [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstu...

In Implementing RSA in Python from Scratch