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Re: Emacs core TLS support
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs core TLS support |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:59:27 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:44 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
TZ> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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