In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:05:07 -0700, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
dank> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ dank> exposes two APIs: the OpenSSL api (I gather?), and its own. About the OpenSSL API, this page answers part of the question. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/reference/gnutls-openssl.html The rest of the answer is in gnutls/openssl.h. They expose some structures to remain compatible with the way OpenSSL currently works, so it's basically a compatibility that's as stripped down as possible. For the rest of GnuTLS, they seem to expose very little, from what I can gather by looking at the public header files. dank> If so, perhaps that might provide a way forward: apps that need dank> a stable interface can use the gnutls api (which openssl could dank> provide as a wrapper); everyone else could use the openssl api dank> (which gnutls seems to provide as a wrapper, unless I misread dank> the docs). It's a path. Just a small warning about license politics: According to http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/gnutls.html, the GnuTLS core library is licensed under the LGPL. Looking at the header files, it looks like there's a mix of GPL and LGPL, and among others, their openssl.h is under the GPL (something I find very interesting). This may have changed with later versions... Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
