Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] external plugin and exported symbols

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I'm just wondering: Is there a reason to use openssl and gnutls? Does  
one TLS
implementation provide features the other doesn't?

Best regards
Michael

On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:

> Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > Thomas Anders wrote:
> >
> > > Why not use them *only* on those systems where we don't find a  
> > > proper GNU TLS or libgcrypt installed?
> >
> >
> > That was what I had in mind.
> >
> > If, however, we only use a small fraction of the code in the  
> > libraries, we might want to copy the code
>
> Well, the partion of gnutls code used is quite small, but libgcrypt  
> is used heavily, because a lot of stream cipher potentially can be  
> used (and moreover hash functions and pk invfrastructure is used,  
> too). I suppose a good 80% of libgcrypt code is needed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paolo
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