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diff --git a/security/gnutls-devel/pkg-descr b/security/gnutls-devel/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eb3b18b04920 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/gnutls-devel/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +GnuTLS is a portable ANSI C based library which implements the TLS 1.0 and +SSL 3.0 protocols. The library does not include any patented algorithms and +is available under the GNU Lesser GPL license. + +Important features of the GnuTLS library include: +- Thread safety +- Support for both TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols +- Support for both X.509 and OpenPGP certificates +- Support for basic parsing and verification of certificates +- Support for SRP for TLS authentication +- Support for TLS Extension mechanism +- Support for TLS Compression Methods + +Additionaly GnuTLS provides an emulation API for the widely used +OpenSSL library, to ease integration with existing applications. + +WWW: http://www.gnutls.org/ |