From: "Simon Josefsson" <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Replace starttls.el with GNUTLS based version?
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:24:03 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40108.217.208.175.28.1070313843.squirrel@217.208.175.28> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2llpwqlur.fsf@nkpbook-invalid.cs.caltech.edu>
>> The external program 'starttls' isn't widely available (e.g., not
>> packaged by Debian) and it uses OpenSSL, so I would like to replace
>> the current starttls.el with a (partially) backwards compatible
>> version that uses GNUTLS. It is currently installed in Gnus CVS
>> contrib/starttls.el, and I have been using it for a while.
>
> Just to make sure I understand correctly, the replacement would allow
> me to continue using the starttls program (as long as I am not using
> client certificates), right?
No. The new starttls.el only works with gnutls-cli. It does work with
elisp code written for the old starttls.el, as long as client certificates
aren't used. Sorry I was unclear.
> The last time I looked GNUTLS required compiling a bunch of other
> libraries, whereas starttls was a stand-alone application.
Right. Hm. Perhaps it would be wortwhile to merge the new and old
starttls.el? So it can fall back to the old code if gnutls-cli isn't
installed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-01 2:31 Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 17:57 ` Steven E. Harris
2003-12-01 19:49 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 20:16 ` Josh Huber
2003-12-01 21:17 ` Nevin Kapur
2003-12-01 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-12-01 22:36 ` Nevin Kapur
2003-12-01 22:10 ` Steven E. Harris
2003-12-01 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-02 13:28 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-02 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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