On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > are you suggesting that TLS libs would be considerably smaller?
>
> I think he meant that using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL might be smaller.

um ... yeah, that's what i meant.

> > i still don't know the relationship between SSL and TLS in terms of
> > dependencies so it's time to do more reading, i guess.
>
> TLS is a protocol. It is the successor of SSL.
>
> OpenSSL is a library that implements SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1
>
> GnuTLS is a library that implements SSLv3 and TLSv1.
>
> libcurl can be built to use either one of these, but not both at the same
> time.

ok, so, just from the functionality built in, it would *seem* that
building with gnutls would create a smaller executable. time to test.
thanks.

rday
Received on 2005-08-13