Future Fedora Development

Steve G linux_4ever at yahoo.com
Wed May 24 18:51:01 UTC 2006


>> - multiple digests operation (openssl, gnutls, nss .. some programs are
>>   now linked with *all* avalaible implemntations 8-0 ),
>
>Yeah, I agree.  OpenSSL seems to be the most comprehensive, but
>its licence stinks and this is why gnutls was written in the first
>place.  Now that Mozilla adopted the triple MPL/GPL/LGPL license,
>there's no reason to keep gnutls any more.

We need to try to streamline the number of SSL implementations for another
reason, FIPS 140-2 certifications. I think that FIPS 200 will be applicable next
year which pulls in the requirement of all crypto being certified.

-Steve

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