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Hi, just a quick small question.

The difference between rustls and native-tls is that the former is a pure-Rust implementation of the TLS protocol while the latter is just a wrapper communicating with the TLS implementation provided by the system (e.g OpenSSL).

Are these assumptions correct?

• Because rustls does not depend on the system it is more portable.
• Code using native-tls might not work on some systems missing dependencies.
• rustls is more secure then native-tls because it is pure-Rust (memory safe).
• rustls is a suitable solution for software which needs to work on different systems out-of-the-box, while native-tls would be preferred when making system-specific software.
• rustls is more performant.
• rustls often "just works" while native-tls might give portability issues.

And is it also true that when using rustls you have to specify the root certificates manually?

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