[Pkg-clamav-devel] clamav 0.98.3 released

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi,

On 09.05.2014 23:31, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Maybe we could replace OpenSSL with gnutls?
>  From the Changelog:
>   * Replace in-house crypto code (md5, sha1, sha256 hashing algorithms)
> with calls to OpenSSL. This makes OpenSSL a required dependency for the
> engine.
>
> I guess gnutls has quite similar functionality?
> But I don't know, how difficult it would be to switch.

GnuTLS has a compatibility layer for OpenSSL [1]. Using this, it might 
be possible to simply switch the headers.
(We might get problems though: "Error handling is not thread safe.")

Best regards,
Andreas

1: 
http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Compatibility-with-the-OpenSSL-library