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Bruno Costacurta

2007-06-27, 7:23 am

Russell Coker

2007-06-27, 7:23 am

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:05, Bruno Costacurta <pubmb01@skynet.be> wrote:
> I might start thinking about porting an x509 application from OpenSSL to
> GnuTLS (Gnu Transport Layer Security) and so looking about feedbacks,
> experiences ..etc.. about such porting, libraries ..etc..
>
> Thanks for your (intellectual and spirit) contribution.


I have made Postal build with either of those SSL libraries with selection via
autoconf. Doing this was a major PITA and not something I recommend doing,
but the code will probably be useful to some people.

Postal is GPL so feel free to copy the source to other GPL projects.

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Florian Weimer

2007-06-27, 7:20 pm

* Bruno Costacurta:

> I might start thinking about porting an x509 application from OpenSSL to
> GnuTLS (Gnu Transport Layer Security) and so looking about feedbacks,
> experiences ..etc.. about such porting, libraries ..etc..


What kind of level of X.509 support do you need? Is chasing
certificate chains a must? Then it can be kind of hard.

If you just look up the certificate in some kind of database, it's not
that difficult. In fact, I think the GNUTLS API is easier to work
with.


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Bruno Costacurta

2007-06-28, 7:30 am

Mario Iseli

2007-06-29, 7:27 am

Hello List...

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:45:50PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> If you just look up the certificate in some kind of database, it's not
> that difficult. In fact, I think the GNUTLS API is easier to work
> with.


I also wanted to port an application from openssl to gnutls once but I
didn't have the time to read all the openssl and gnutls documentation in
a specified timeframe. Is there maybe a porter guide which explains the
functions in a short way and on what you have to look when porting that
stuff?

Thank you and regards,
Mario

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