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| author | Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> | 2004-08-16 20:48:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> | 2004-08-16 20:48:25 +0000 |
| commit | 35ed91714ddf309249cba61283f9dc1be8c572ad (patch) | |
| tree | a60a8d613206a77799e80c456674c6ce9ab00800 /README | |
| parent | f63bd9e268bdda1ac29d8420b0cecb13b092ec73 (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-35ed91714ddf309249cba61283f9dc1be8c572ad.tar.gz | |
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@@ -25,6 +25,26 @@ Nothing special here. In case you are compiling for embedded systems you should check the configure options (that is run: 'configure --help'), and disable unneeded features of gnutls. +Experimental: + +If you specify --with-nettle, the copy of some files from Nettle that +are included in nettle/ will be used. It is used via the generic +crypto interface in crypto/, which would normally invoke Libgcrypt. + +Currently the generic crypto interface only support encryption, +decryption, hashing and gathering of random data. Supporting +RSA/DSA/DH/SEXP/MPI in the generic crypto interface is pending. + +As Nettle do not include a randomness gatherer, if --with-nettle is +specified, random data will be read from system device files (e.g., +/dev/urandom) directly. The files used are printed when running +configure, you can override them using --enable-random-device, +--enable-pseudo-random-device, and --enable-nonce-device. Please let +us know if the defaults for some systems are wrong. + +The goal here is to make GnuTLS build standalone, in case Libgcrypt is +not available, but also to allow easy use of other crypto libraries or +crypto hardware. **************************** LICENSE ISSUES: |