TODO: Less memory massaging with Schannel

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  13.4 Cache/share OpenSSL contexts
  13.5 Export session ids
  13.6 Provide callback for cert verification
+ 13.7 Less memory massaging with Schannel
  13.8 Support DANE
  13.9 TLS record padding
  13.10 Support Authority Information Access certificate extension (AIA)
@@ -811,6 +812,13 @@
  certificate, but this does not seem to be exposed in the libcurl APIs. Could
  it be? There's so much that could be done if it were.
 
+13.7 Less memory massaging with Schannel
+
+ The Schannel backend does a lot of custom memory management we would rather
+ avoid: the repeated alloc + free in sends and the custom memory + realloc
+ system for encrypted and decrypted data. That should be avoided and reduced
+ for 1) efficiency and 2) safety.
+
 13.8 Support DANE
 
  DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a way to provide SSL