Re: GnuTLS invasion of Emacs published)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:23:12 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> EZ> What other features in Emacs use TLS as of this writing?  I thought
> EZ> only email protocols do, which is why I described GnuTLS as I did.
> 
> Any network connection can use it.

I asked about actual use, not potential uses.

> I think Lars introduced that option, and at least HTTP/S connections
> can use it.

Then this needs to be documented somewhere.

> It's a replacement for the previous libraries that managed secure
> connections, except it doesn't depend on external binaries.  So it
> really doesn't change much in terms of Emacs functionality, only in the
> underlying implementation.

Lisp programmers should know they can use TLS when Emacs was compiled
with GnuTLS support.  Users should know that as well, because they
will need to set up their machines for that.  E.g., this:

> There is one annoying detail with the cert bundle on W32.  It
> defaults to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt which is not valid on
> W32 and on many other platforms.