From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs core TLS support Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:59:27 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k4v0n0m8.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <878wc1vfh3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r5ptpnz2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871vhsvkut.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d41csktn.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264795250 21045 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2010 20:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:00:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 21:00:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nax1K-00078R-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nax1J-0004Ik-CE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nax1D-0004Fm-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nax17-00044p-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53615 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nax17-00044b-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51132) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nax17-0000yJ-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nax0w-0006jL-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:22 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:22 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ir7i0GkzDn5f9N/uVYH42rF1v5I= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120671 Archived-At: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:44 -0600 Ted Zlatanov wrote: TZ> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 Stefan Monnier 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