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Add more crypto provider flexibility #425

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Right now, we support three different crypto providers: OpenSSL 1.1, OpenSSL 3, and BoringSSL. These providers have largely the same API, so we have a slightly hairy mess of #ifdefs to account for the differences. If we were to try to add support for CryptoKit, X-CUBE-CRYPTOLIB or liboqs, we would need things to look substantially different.

We should consider introducing a stronger interface/implementation separation, and segregating the implementation code according to the underlying crypto provider.

Prior art in mls-rs:

  • https://docs.rs/mls-rs/latest/mls_rs/trait.CryptoProvider.html
  • https://docs.rs/mls-rs/latest/mls_rs/trait.CipherSuiteProvider.html

Overall concept:

  • lib/hpke/src has files for some set of providers
  • Non-goal to allow runtime addition of new providers
  • Each instance of MLSpp is built for a single, specific provider
  • Consumer selects provider with CMake flags

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