[jacques_chester]

It's a pity that there isn't a wrapper for PolarSSL. I wrote a Lua wrapper for some PolarSSL hash functions and it was relatively straightforward.

OpenSSL is more of a framework than a library. If you crack open code that wraps it, there's an enormous amount of book-keeping that has to be done to do things the OpenSSL way. PolarSSL by contrast just makes everything standalone.

However, OpenSSL definitely receives the majority of eyeballs and the project team go to great lengths to improve crypto performance on many platforms and devices.