# Integrating Nginx with polarssl instead of openssl

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-nginx-with-polarssl-instead-of-openssl/214287>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 27, 2011, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-nginx-with-polarssl-instead-of-openssl/214287 "2011-11-27T09:57:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-nginx-with-polarssl-instead-of-openssl/214287/1 "2011-11-27T09:57:01Z")

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In the domain of SSL libraries, while OpenSSL is like Apache, PolarSSL  
is much like Nginx: more compact and more secure.

PolarSSL [http://polarssl.org/](http://polarssl.org/) has compact modular code, small memory  
footprint and is being favored in high security applications (the  
integration in the OpenVPN project being an example of that).

I wonder, has anybody tried to compile Nginx linked to PolarSSL,  
instead of OpenSSL ?

Regards,

Mark