gnutls-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Nettle as default (was: gnutls 2.11.1)


From: Andreas Metzler
Subject: Nettle as default (was: gnutls 2.11.1)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:16:27 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On 2010-09-14 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> * Version 2.11.1 (released 2010-09-14)

> ** libgnutls: Nettle is the default crypto back end. Use
> --with-libgcrypt to use the libgcrypt back end.

> ** libgnutls: Depend on nettle 2.1. This makes nettle a fully working
> backend crypto library.
[...]

Hello,

I suspect we will need to keep using gcrypt in Debian for license
reasons. Nettle is GPL (at least some parts, blowfish and serpent)
instead og GnuTLS' LGP-2.1+.

cu andreas



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]