Vincent Torri <vincent.torri_at_gmail.com> writes:
> Hey,
>
> afaik, libssh2 is used to allow secured file transfert protocol (sftp, for
> example) with libcurl
> and afaik too, libgcrypt and nettle have the same purposes.
>
> libcurl can use openssl or gnutls.
> libssh2 can use openssl or libgcrypt
> the next major release of gnutls will use only nettle, and not libgcrypt
> anymore. And even now, nettle is preferred over libgcrypt.
>
> So, if I don't want to use openssl at all, I will have to install nettle
> (because of gnutls dep of libcurl), and libgcrypt (because of libssh2 dep of
> libcurl), which is a bit redundant.
>
> Is there any plan to add nettle support in libssh2 ?
Not that I know of, but I think it would be great addition. Note that
nettle does not have randomness generation, though, but I'm working on
something to resolve that. ;)
/Simon
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Received on 2011-07-01