Re: Segmentation Fault

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, February 23, 2007 11:10 AM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> 
wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > --On Friday, February 23, 2007 8:11 AM +0000 Gavin Henry
> > <ghenry@suretecsystems.com> wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone have Debian contacts to inform them of this, or are they
> > > fully
> > > aware?
>
> > Debian is fully aware.  Stanford and The Written Word have hired Symas
> > to implement true GnuTLS support, so that this problem will go away.
>
> Though the wisdom of actually using GNUtls has yet to be established.
> Personally I would seriously distrust an X.509 implementation written by
> people who so obviously don't understand X.500. While we'll fix what's
> obviously broken that we trip over, we weren't tasked with insuring its
> overall suitability for use.

Understood.  One of my co-workers was making the argument to me yesterday, 
that using GnuTLS is desired because it has a better API than OpenSSL. 
Personally, I thought one would choose what SSL/TLS implementation to use 
based on how well it actually follows the specifications....

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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