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Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:08:25 +0100


On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Nikos Mavroyanopoulos wrote:


> GNUTLS_STATE *state=malloc(SIZEOF_GNUTLS_STATE);
There is not need, that SIZEOF_GNUTLS_STATE is know for users of gnutls. Better initialize the state with an init function:
> gnutls_init(state, GNUTLS_SERVER);
> /* or in case of a client: gnutls_init(state, GNUTLS_CLIENT); */
int gnutls_init( *ret_state, GNUTLS_SERVER );
> free(state);
gnutls_deinit(state)
> gnutl_send/receive() will process messages of all types (alert,
> change_cipher_spec, handshake, application_data). So gnutls_handshake
> will be able to use these functions internally.
That looks easy. However, I don't know much about TLS. Werner