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Re: SSL libs compared page

From: Howard Chu <hyc_at_highlandsun.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:51:15 -0800

Vincent Torri wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Howard Chu <hyc_at_highlandsun.com
> <mailto:hyc_at_highlandsun.com>> wrote:
>
> PolarSSL works fine on Windows.
>
> The GnuTLS API is far from consistent. It's an architectural disaster. See
> e.g.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/sudo/+bug/423252
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566351
>
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00072.html

> http://old.nabble.com/GnuTLS-considered-harmful-td28718812.html
>
> Vincent Torri

And your point is? None of the discussion you've linked nullifies the severity
of the bug reports I linked to.

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