Re: RFC transitioning to gnutls28

2011-10-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Russ Allbery wrote: > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> On Oct 15, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> * It uses nettle instead of gcrypt as crypto backend[1]. Packages that >> Why? If gcrypt supported GCM, it might be added back as supported backend. > Does that fix the problems with using GnuT

Re: RFC transitioning to gnutls28

2011-10-15 Thread Russ Allbery
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Oct 15, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> * It uses nettle instead of gcrypt as crypto backend[1]. Packages that > Why? Does that fix the problems with using GnuTLS in setuid programs? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: RFC transitioning to gnutls28

2011-10-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 15 octobre 2011 à 17:52 +0200, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > gnutls28 (that is GnuTLS 3.x) has been available in experimental for > quite some time. While the API breakage compared to gnutls26 (2.x) is > not too bad It doesn’t require large changes, but it can break in subtle ways. For ex

Re: RFC transitioning to gnutls28

2011-10-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 15, Andreas Metzler wrote: > * It uses nettle instead of gcrypt as crypto backend[1]. Packages that Why? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFC transitioning to gnutls28

2011-10-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, gnutls28 (that is GnuTLS 3.x) has been available in experimental for quite some time. While the API breakage compared to gnutls26 (2.x) is not too bad, there are two major issues: * It uses nettle instead of gcrypt as crypto backend[1]. Packages that directly use gcrypt will need an addi