Re: GNU TLS lisp bindings

[Rajesh Vaidheeswarran]

I would love to see this in emacs too. I believe this would be a very
useful feature.

If this becomes a blessed project, I'd be happy to contribute some
of my time towards it.

rv


In a previous message, William M. Perry writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I rewrote my native TLS support for Emacs using GNU TLS instead of
> > Open SSL:
> > 
> > http://josefsson.org/securemacs/
> > 
> > Beware, the patch is very ugly but at least it allows me to read my mail
> > over TLS with Gnus.
> > 
> > Install GNU TLS, do "aclocal" and "autoconf" in the Emacs directory after
> > applying the patch, build Emacs and load "gnutls.el" and you should have
> > the usual `open-ssl-stream' available.
> 
> What are people's thoughts on whether this (or something similar) will get
> included?  I've been dealing a lot with our SSL implementation here at
> aventail, and originally did some SSL integration years and years ago (when
> OpenSSL was still called SSLeay :) that couldn't be included because of
> export restrictions and the use of SSLeay, which was not free enough.  I
> would _love_ to see this as part of the base distribution.
> 
> Being able to do SSL is becoming more and more important.  There are
> existing hacks to do this (my ssl.el and the starttls.el that is floating
> around), but they don't get you _real_ integration.
> 
> What would be ideal is if we could somehow expose the GNU TLS API (thats a
> lot of caps :) directly in emacs-lisp.  Then open-ssl-stream could be
> written completely in emacs-lisp, and callbacks to verify certificates
> could be implemented in lisp as well.  I think this would be necessary to
> allow applications within emacs to have different security policies
> (Emacs/W3 would probably be more `open' than Gnus by default).
> 
> -bp
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