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Re: libgcrypt brain dead?



On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:34:37AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Unfortunately, gcrypt is used by gnutls, which is used in ldap, which
> is frequently used in PAM and NSS. So this is an issue. There might be
> other NSS and PAM modules that use it too.

> What is the solution? Should we go back to using openssl, at least
> with libraries such as openldap that are commonly used in pam and nss
> modules?

There is no "going back" to openssl.  OpenSSL is license-incompatible with
many LDAP-using applications in Debian, and I don't see any way that we can
justify distributing an LDAP library that *doesn't* support TLS in this day
and age.

If gcrypt is broken, then we should fix gcrypt.

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