[PATCH] Crypto use in Samba (was: Re: SMB3 encryption performance)

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 09:36:25AM -0500, Michael Ledford wrote:
> It looks like GnuTLS is aiming for a march release of 3.4
> <http://nmav.gnutls.org/2014/12/a-quick-overview-of-gnutls-development.html>

Just took a peek at that blog:

> Dependency-wise, GnuTLS is moving to a tighter integration
> with nettle, which provides one of the fastest ECC
> implementations out there; I find unfortunate, though, that
> there seem to be no intention of collaboration between the
> two GNU crypto libraries - nettle and libgcrypt, meaning
> that optimizations in libgcrypt stay in libgcrypt and the
> same for nettle.

Free Software is all about choice, right? :-))

Volker

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