[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#669702: Patch to enable openconnect VPN plugin

[Michael Biebl]

Hi David,

On 25.05.2012 23:07, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 22:45 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> If only openconnect would have used gnutls... 
> 
> If only gnutls would have given a sane way to use a certificate from a
> TPM, and supported DTLS. Hey, maybe I wouldn't have had to write HTTP
> client support for myself at all; I could have used one of the multitude
> of existing libraries!

Oh, yeah, I'm very well aware that gnutls has its own share of issues
and peculiarities.

> Patches to openconnect to make it optionally use gnutls instead of
> openssl would be most welcome... and it could be done incrementally;
> using gnutls just for the TCP connection first and still using OpenSSL
> for DTLS (which happens in openconnect(8) not in libopenconnect). That
> would be enough to solve this issue, and adding PKCS#11 support and DTLS
> support could come later.

Personally I don't have the time to work on that but would appreciate
any efforts in that direction.


Cheers,
Michael

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