[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Multiple GnuTLS issues with exim4

[James Westby]

On (22/06/06 06:49), Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> The list of exim bugs that might be connected to gnutls are usedtagged
> gnutls 

This seems like a good system for bugs you are not sure about, perhaps
if you cc this list as you tag it we can consider it as well.

> 
> The most annoying bugs are GnuTLS taking way too much entropy on
> initialization of an SSL session which is a source of constant grief
> on headless systems, 

This has been discussed much upstream, but without much of a solution to
the general problem being found. Hopefully the amount of entropy used
could be decreased, which would help a lot.

I'm not sure what we can do to help you here without movement upstream.

> and strange misbehavior when both ldaps and smtp
> over ssl are in use. The latter issue seems to show when both the LDAP
> library and exim are linked to the same libgnutls.

I saw that this has now been closed, as it seems it is unreproducible
with gnutls later than 11. Hopefully we've seen the end of it.

James

[Apologies for the slowness of my reply, but I wanted to have some
comments to make before I attempted to make them.]

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