Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> writes: > 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?
Sounds good, I would support that effort. I have signed up as GSOC mentor via the GNU project some years, and could do it again this year if someone can develop a good proposal. /Simon
