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GNUTLS [Re: [Bug-wget] remove windows subdirectory]


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: GNUTLS [Re: [Bug-wget] remove windows subdirectory]
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:42:48 -0700
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On 06/14/2010 08:32 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> By the way, I see that currently OpenSSL is preferred over GNU TLS (not
> only under Windows), I would invert this.

The current GNU TLS support is broken: that needs to be fixed first. My
understanding is that it doesn't do all the checks it ought to do, so
allows sites that lie about who they are. But I think it handles the
encryption itself alright.

Some of this may be wrong; I only knew "it was broken", and there were
enough higher priorities that I never looked at it properly.

I know that RMS had expressed a desire to remove the licensing exception
we currently have for OpenSSL once GNUTLS support was working properly.
I'm not particularly crazy about that, myself.

-- 
Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/



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