Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> writes: > Hey, > > afaik, libssh2 is used to allow secured file transfert protocol (sftp, for > example) with libcurl > and afaik too, libgcrypt and nettle have the same purposes. > > libcurl can use openssl or gnutls. > libssh2 can use openssl or libgcrypt > the next major release of gnutls will use only nettle, and not libgcrypt > anymore. And even now, nettle is preferred over libgcrypt. > > So, if I don't want to use openssl at all, I will have to install nettle > (because of gnutls dep of libcurl), and libgcrypt (because of libssh2 dep of > libcurl), which is a bit redundant. > > Is there any plan to add nettle support in libssh2 ?
Not that I know of, but I think it would be great addition. Note that nettle does not have randomness generation, though, but I'm working on something to resolve that. ;) /Simon _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libssh2-devel
