Re: gnutls + openpgp

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 11/07/2012 03:32 AM, Patrick Pelletier wrote:

> On 11/3/12 12:26 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> 
>> And even more, if it is shown they are not widely used, does it make
>> sense to support openpgp keys in gnutls at all?
> 
> FWIW, I noticed that the hs-tls folks have expressed some interest in
> OpenPGP, although admittedly there's been no further activity in 7 months:
> 
> https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-tls/issues/10
> 
> But still, it might be worthwhile to touch base with those guys.  It
> would be somewhat ironic if GnuTLS dropped support for OpenPGP at the
> same time hs-tls was adding support.


Hello Patrick,
 Even if this code will be removed at some point this will not be
anytime soon. If it proves that there no users at all then it will be
marked as deprecated and stay in the code as a second class citizen (no
new features being added) until the next ABI break.

regards,
Nikos