SSLConn This is an experimental golang (CGO) wrapper around OpenSSL. The crypto/tls package does not support (1) SSLv2 compatible handshakes, so this is an attempt to use OpenSSL in golang. The reason SSLv2 handshake is desired is for compatibility (2) with a variety of clients. The suggested approach is to provide SSL termination upstream, however some protocols upgrade plain text connections using STARTTLS (3) which would require a smart and protocol aware SSL terminator. This wrapper only exposes only a tiny subset of the OpenSSL API, just enough to enable the use-case described above. Examples: github.com/vadims/sslconn-examples Implementation Details In order to multiplex a OpenSSL connection the underlying IO needs to be non blocking. To support that, a NonBlockingReader and NonBlockingWriter were implemented to provide the necessary semantics. Most of the OpenSSL integration is done in C to avoid locking the OS thread required for error checking (thread locals.) 1. http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=3930 2. http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_CTX_new.html 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARTTLS