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gnutls interoperability

Posted Feb 17, 2011 9:19 UTC (Thu) by arekm (subscriber, #4846)
Parent article: PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

Mine problem with gnutls is that it's more stricter than openssl. openssl can connect to some "broken" servers while gnutls can't without manual intervention (switching some things on/off).

Example: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106628
Unfortunately these broken servers are bank servers :/

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Posted Feb 17, 2011 10:29 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Indeed. GnuTLS' poor interoperability has been a constant source of problems for Debian's exim packages, which cannot use OpenSSL for familiar reasons.