On Wednesday 27 June 2007 21:45:50 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Bruno Costacurta: > > I might start thinking about porting an x509 application from OpenSSL to > > GnuTLS (Gnu Transport Layer Security) and so looking about feedbacks, > > experiences ..etc.. about such porting, libraries ..etc.. > > What kind of level of X.509 support do you need? Is chasing > certificate chains a must? Then it can be kind of hard. > > If you just look up the certificate in some kind of database, it's not > that difficult. In fact, I think the GNUTLS API is easier to work > with. Hello, indeed some functionalities might be hard to port. This porting OpenSSL --> GnuTLS might be requested by license / copyright policies from Debian as we intend to package this application under Debian. This is linked to a thread on the Debian legal mailing list : http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00214.html Regards, Bruno Costacurta -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key server: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net Key fingerprint = 713F 7956 9441 7DEF 58ED 1951 7E07 569B 2E60 4D51 --
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