trying to find the cipher functions

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Apr 20 19:00:38 CEST 2010


On 04/20/2010 11:06 AM, Ali Khalfan wrote:
> Is there something I'm missing here about  gnutls's architecture?  It
> doesn't seem to be logical that there would be one generic function that
> would take care of all the different algorithm types, and I don't
> believe that gnutls is relying on openssl

GnuTLS relies on gcrypt for its low-level crypto-primitives.

There has als been some discussion in the recent past about making
gnutls  flexible enough to use an alternate low-level library (such as
nettle), but i don't think that's in place at the moment.

	--dkg

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