Bug#434599: HMAC_MD5 in libgcrypt

2014-08-10 Thread Bernhard Reiter
I did some quick and uninformed research, and found that libgcrypt has support for the HMAC_MD5 algorithm nowadays (in git since about end of 2013, IIRC). Is that something that Mike Miller's code could employ to implement MD5-CRAM authentication with libgcyrpt-based versions of gnutls? (As for

Bug#434599: HMAC_MD5 in libgcrypt

2014-08-10 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Okay, informed myself a bit more ;-) Apparently old (libgcrypt-based) gnutls isn't of any interest any more. There's a good resume of the issues concerning use of (current, nettle-based) gnutls for git in Debian and Ubuntu at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/+bug/432786 , which I've