Re: gnus/starttls.el and net/tls.el

[Richard Stallman]

    I'm not sure I understand the reason though.  Is it to avoid having two
    files?

It is to avoid the code duplication.

            If so, how about moving the code in starttls.el into tls.el?

I don't exactly object, but I am not sure that is the best way.

    Today, I don't think there is any reason, but I may be biased towards
    favoring GnuTLS.  gnutls-cli didn't used to support starttls operations,
    but it does today.  As far as I remember, 'starttls' doesn't verify
    server certificates, so starttls may be considered insecure.

It sounds like the thing to do is to reimplement the useful features
of starttls.el in tls.el.