[Pkg-gnutls-commits] r886 - in /packages/gnutls26/branches/branch2.9.x/debian: changelog control

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> On 2010-07-05 Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> ametzler at users.alioth.debian.org writes:
>
>> > Strip down and update package descriptions. Closes: #588067
>
>> It might be good to mention the X.509, SRP, PSK, OpenPGP keywords
>> somehow though?  If I search for 'tls openpgp' I ought to find GnuTLS.
>
>> /Simon
>
>
> Is this prefereable (basically copied from the project page)?
>
>  GnuTLS is a portable library which implements the Transport Layer
>  Security (TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocols.
>  .
>  GnuTLS features suppport for:
>   - TLS extensions: server name indication, max record size, opaque PRF
>     input, etc.
>   - authentication using the SRP protocol.
>   - authentication using both X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys.
>   - TLS Pre-Shared-Keys (PSK) extension.
>   - Inner Application (TLS/IA) extension.
>   - X.509 and OpenPGP certificate handling.
>   - X.509 Proxy Certificates (RFC 3820).
>   - all the strong encryption algorithms (including SHA-256/384/512),
>     including Camellia (RFC 4132)

Looks splendid to me!

(I've dropped 'opaque PRF input' from our project page because it was
never standardized and I don't think anyone cares any more.)

/Simon