Hi, On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 21:44, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > Em Quarta-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 2010, às 08:49:30, Arjan van de Ven > escreveu: >> On 12/8/2010 8:44 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: >> > - use GnuTLS or NSS instead of OpenSSL, >> >> we should be using NSS anyway wherever possible, not just for the >> licensing side, >> but also because openssl has a history of ABI mess. > > Which should hopefully be a thing of the past now that OpenSSL has reached > version 1.0. > > NSS is an alternative, but I think our legal department ruled out any Qt-NSS > code a while ago. I remember this because when the LSB wanted to standardise > on NSS, we reported we could never use it. I don't know if the circumstances > are still the same. Yep.
More to that, OpenSSL since late 0.9 versions has proper support to load crypto engines supporting other cryptography schemes. In particular, this is important for supporting Russian and Chinese cryptography standards. Neither of competing options has such feature and support -- not at least for Russian crypto. -- / Alexander Bokovoy _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
