Re: Emacs core TLS support

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:13 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> Simon Josefsson already put a patch together at
>> http://josefsson.org/securemacs but it will probably need to be revised
>> a bit, the last change was in 2002.  It offers gnutls.el as an
>> alternative to starttls.el, with a similar API.  As long as this is
>> optional and autodetected through configure, I don't see a downside.  It
>> may need to be folded into starttls.el but that's not a big deal.  I'm
>> cc-ing Simon in case he has any comments.

SM> I think I'd be OK with adding a --with-gnutls configure option that
SM> links Emacs against that library.  Especially if we can provide
SM> a compatibility footls.el library that works both --with-gnutls
SM> and without.

Is anyone interested in reviewing Simon's patch?  I think it does
exactly what you suggest except the compatibility layer, which should be
trivial since Simon kept the invocation semantics the same between
gnutls.el and starttls.el.

Ted