Re: Emacs core TLS support

[Stefan Monnier]

> Simon Josefsson already put a patch together at
> http://josefsson.org/securemacs but it will probably need to be revised
> a bit, the last change was in 2002.  It offers gnutls.el as an
> alternative to starttls.el, with a similar API.  As long as this is
> optional and autodetected through configure, I don't see a downside.  It
> may need to be folded into starttls.el but that's not a big deal.  I'm
> cc-ing Simon in case he has any comments.

I think I'd be OK with adding a --with-gnutls configure option that
links Emacs against that library.  Especially if we can provide
a compatibility footls.el library that works both --with-gnutls
and without.


        Stefan