Re: Emacs core TLS support

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:44 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: 
>>> Simon Josefsson already put a patch together at
>>> http://josefsson.org/securemacs but it will probably need to be revised
>>> a bit, the last change was in 2002.  It offers gnutls.el as an
>>> alternative to starttls.el, with a similar API.  As long as this is
>>> optional and autodetected through configure, I don't see a downside.  It
>>> may need to be folded into starttls.el but that's not a big deal.  I'm
>>> cc-ing Simon in case he has any comments.

SM> I think I'd be OK with adding a --with-gnutls configure option that
SM> links Emacs against that library.  Especially if we can provide
SM> a compatibility footls.el library that works both --with-gnutls
SM> and without.

TZ> Is anyone interested in reviewing Simon's patch?  I think it does
TZ> exactly what you suggest except the compatibility layer, which should be
TZ> trivial since Simon kept the invocation semantics the same between
TZ> gnutls.el and starttls.el.

ping...  I hope someone better acquainted with the internals than me can
take a look.

Thanks!
Ted