From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another update of GNU TLS bindings Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:34:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200202232021.g1NKL5c14803@aztec.santafe.edu> <200202241758.g1OHwNo15073@aztec.santafe.edu> <200202251623.g1PGNT915882@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014669572 28255 195.204.10.66 (25 Feb 2002 20:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Feb 2002 20:39:32 GMT Cc: wmperry@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16fRuF-0007Ld-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:39:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16fRr9-0000OI-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16fRpe-0000K2-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1PKYiKY011411; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:34:45 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200202251623.g1PGNT915882@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:23:29 -0700 (MST)") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1535 Richard Stallman writes: > GNUTLS is a library, OpenSSL is both a library and an application. > William's ssl.el invokes the binary. This is a inflexible method, it > is complicated to find out what algorithms chosed during the TLS > handshake, and generally difficult to do anything interactive during > the TLS handshake. > > I see why that method is not as flexible. But it is nonetheless a > useful alternative. If OpenSSL can do it, why can't we do it? I am sure "we" as in the GNUTLS developer can do it. Should I forward this request to them? I agree it would be a useful feature. It might even be on their todo list. However, I'm not sure this would be useful for Emacs though, because using it would only move us to the same level as we have with the current OpenSSL support. > Even if GNUTLS shipped with a binary allowing it to do all the things > OpenSSL currently does, it would not be satisfactory. > > Would this method be less satisfactory for GNUTLS than it is for OpenSSL? No, it would be the same. However this method is generally unsatisfactory. That is what prompted me to write the GNUTLS bindings for Emacs. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel