From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs core TLS support Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878wc1vfh3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r5ptpnz2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871vhsvkut.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 1263484757 27613 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2010 15:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Simon Josefsson , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 16:59:09 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 4.50) id 1NVS5d-0004sg-9I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:58:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVS5e-0002Wh-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:58:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVRrw-0003jb-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVRrr-0003a4-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48376 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVRrr-0003Zs-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:15 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:41897 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVRrr-0004s5-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:15 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq8EAFLKTktFxLLV/2dsb2JhbACBRddChDAEijY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,275,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="53742189" Original-Received: from 69-196-178-213.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.178.213]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 94C2D70033; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <871vhsvkut.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:09:46 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:120003 Archived-At: > 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. I think I'd be OK with adding a --with-gnutls configure option that links Emacs against that library. Especially if we can provide a compatibility footls.el library that works both --with-gnutls and without. Stefan