On 3/5/09 6:48 AM, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Having more feedback on what kind of features XMPP wants from TLS >> libraries will help TLS implementers (at least it will help me), and >> making the requirements explicit may help the decision on what is the >> best choice for XMPP too. > > For OpenSSL and GnuTLS it is more about features of the bindings. Both > libs have SRP and Finished message support for channel-bindings. But the > Python bindings (that is what I care about) only support X.509. Well, it > is even worse: OpenSSL's Python bindings are old and not updated > anymore, GnuTLS does not have real bindings (only some strange ctypes > based code flying around without real project homepage). > > I don't know about Ruby, C#, or any other language. GnuTLS only seems to > have suitable Guile bindings -- but seriously, who uses these? > > If you are part of the GnuTLS team, maybe you can start a campain for > good language bindings. The lack of bindings is why many people prefer > OpenSSL. Add at least good support for Python and Ruby. Many XMPP client > libs are written in scripting languages.
This sounds like a very important effort. Google Summer of Code? Perhaps a collaborative initiative of all the projects that use TLS in various languages? Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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