Bug#861193: Please enable heartbeat support

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2017-04-25 Alexandre Viau <aviau at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libgnutls30
> Version: 3.5.8-5
> Severity: normal

> Dear Maintainer,

> Please enable heartbeart support, which is needed for newer versions of
> the ring source package.

okay, noted.

> MTU discovery by heartbeat with DTLS is mentioned in RFC 6520 (DTLS)[1]
> and defined in RFC 4821[2].

> It seems that heartbeat support was disabled in 2013, with no reason
> given in the commit message[2].
[...]

In 2013 gnutls 3.x was only available in experimental. I do not remember
but I guess it was disabled because it seemed (still seems) to be a good
idea to not enable exotic extensions unless they are actually used. Then
in 2014 heartbleed followed. ;-)

cu Andreas
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