[Help-gnutls] Re: GnuTLS vs OpenSSL vs NSS

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg-debian.org at fifthhorseman.net
Thu May 3 22:03:04 CEST 2007


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On Thu 2007-05-03 15:38:35 -0400, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Right, I think we should mention this.  There is no equivalent feature
> in GnuTLS yet, but I'm working on PKCS#11 support to address one aspect
> of this (client smart card authentication) and made the first release a
> few days ago.

i'd be interested in reviewing this, if you've got test cases that
need it.  Sorry that i missed the initial announcement.  i use an
eGate smartcard for daily (hooked in via opensc and openct) via PAM
and openssh [0], and i've got a spare device i could test with.

Can you point me towards something to test?

> Btw, I'd like to add other free TLS libraries to the list.  That's
> why I made the implementations have one row each in the tables,
> rather than having the implementations be one column each.  This
> allows the list of implementations to be added easily, without
> clobbering the page too much.

these might be worth including:

http://yassl.com/
http://www.matrixssl.org/

(and soliciting feedback from their developers would be a good thing
for the page, too)

Regards,

        --dkg

[0] http://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/egate/
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