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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2013-01-02 19:10:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2013-01-02 19:22:26 +0100 |
| commit | ed6c834986178fd3d4930340190a704a54c93552 (patch) | |
| tree | f5760b6ec5af3bdd95d320a65f04a3905f9dada9 /doc/cha-tokens.texi | |
| parent | 0fcbd34c953304dd06ebd49389af4b78575bd55b (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-ed6c834986178fd3d4930340190a704a54c93552.tar.gz | |
If trousers is not present define the TPM functions but have them return GNUTLS_E_UNIMPLEMENTED_FEATURE.
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diff --git a/doc/cha-tokens.texi b/doc/cha-tokens.texi index 34184eeb6e..84558de1de 100644 --- a/doc/cha-tokens.texi +++ b/doc/cha-tokens.texi @@ -357,7 +357,11 @@ certificates by specifying a PKCS #11 URL instead of a filename. @cindex TPM In this section we present the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support -in @acronym{GnuTLS}. There was a big hype when the TPM chip was introduced into +in @acronym{GnuTLS}. Note that this functionality is disabled by default +because the @code{trousers} libraries GnuTLS depends on for that functionality +are under the Common Public License which is not compatible with the GPL license. + +There was a big hype when the TPM chip was introduced into computers. Briefly it is a co-processor in your PC that allows it to perform calculations independently of the main processor. This has good and bad side-effects. In this section we focus on the good ones, which are the fact that |