Qt, POP3 and SSL?

If Gmail is using SSL does this mean that I have to implement the algorithms for encrypting and decrypting all the 开发者_开发百科traffic by myself in order to download the mail?

If so, is there a fast workaround for doing this ?

I should mention that I'm making a POP3 client from scratch in Qt Creator and I want to implement all the communication by myself.

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You don't need to implement encryption algorithms by yourself. Qt includes SSL support under QSsl namespace, which was introduced in Qt 4.3. You should consider looking under QSsl namespace for required classes and enumerations.