Option to disable encryption?

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sat Mar 24 01:25:08 CET 2012


On 03/23/2012 05:27 PM, Steven Hudson wrote:

> I was wondering if I can include an option to disable encryption by
> doing this:
> gnutls_priority_set_direct(session, "NONE:+COMP-ALL", NULL);
> 
> This would allow me to use the compression option but not encryption? Or
> would this just fail to connect?


It is not that simple. You need to use the NULL cipher to disable
encryption. An example could be:
"NONE:+NULL:+SIGN-ALL:+COMP-NULL:+MAC-ALL:+VERS-TLS-ALL:+KX-ALL"

regards,
Nikos




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