From: Nevin Kapur <nkapur@cs.caltech.edu>
Subject: Re: Replace starttls.el with GNUTLS based version?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:17:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2llpwqlur.fsf@nkpbook-invalid.cs.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilun0adjmju.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> How many uses STARTTLS? For SMTP or IMAP?
I use it for both.
> 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? The last time I looked GNUTLS required
compiling a bunch of other libraries, whereas starttls was a
stand-alone application.
-Nevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 21:17 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 [this message]
2003-12-01 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson
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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