C++ classes

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Tue Sep 25 09:47:58 CEST 2012


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:

>> Thank you. I'll update the web site (savanah seems to be down) to
>> mention that.
>> btw. I notice that you discuss the RSA-EXPORT ciphersuites. Is there any
>> particular reason for that? They are not be used today and I'm not aware
>> of any countries that specifically allow them but not the strong ones. I
>> plan to remove them from gnutls completely in one of the upcoming
>> releases.
> No particular reason, just that they were always there, so I always had some
> code that chewed them. As soon as they don't compile any more, I'll get rid
> of them.
> Are those functions marked as deprecated? I pay attention to compiler
> warnings, but I don't recall seeing any warnings about them.

I think that most functions that are used for RSA-EXPORT are also used
for RSA key generation so they will not be deprecated. What will be
removed are the priority strings "EXPORT", "RSA-EXPORT" and
ARCFOUR-40.

regards,
Nikos




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