[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox CA

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 09/12/2013 04:40 PM, Simo wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 15:13 +0100, keith at sd-kvm.me4.it wrote:
>> Gnutls may be usable as an alternative to Openssl.
>> It's already in Debian, new to me.
> 
> What's wrong with OpenSSL that GNUTLS get's right ?

 * Licensing that is not deliberately incompatible with the GPL.

 * A sane and modern library API (granted, parts of OpenSSL are have
these features too; most projects are mired in the horror, though)

 * delegation of specific tasks to other libraries, rather than
kitchen-sink agglomeration.

There are probably other reasons.

	--dkg

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