From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus/starttls.el and net/tls.el
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:29:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IsspB-0003WX-Gk@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mytfsi8c.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (message from Simon Josefsson on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:20:35 +0100)
I'm not sure I understand the reason though. Is it to avoid having two
files?
It is to avoid the code duplication.
If so, how about moving the code in starttls.el into tls.el?
I don't exactly object, but I am not sure that is the best way.
Today, I don't think there is any reason, but I may be biased towards
favoring GnuTLS. gnutls-cli didn't used to support starttls operations,
but it does today. As far as I remember, 'starttls' doesn't verify
server certificates, so starttls may be considered insecure.
It sounds like the thing to do is to reimplement the useful features
of starttls.el in tls.el.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1Ipflm-0004Yx-6I@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-11-08 13:35 ` gnus/starttls.el and net/tls.el Simon Josefsson
2007-11-09 22:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 14:20 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-16 4:29 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-11-26 15:28 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-26 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-28 13:44 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-11-29 11:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-29 12:08 ` Sascha Wilde
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