?Two Certificate Managers? (Re: regarding KPF)

[Simon Josefsson]

staikos at kde.org (George Staikos) writes:

>> - The Aegypten team has been contracted to develop _free_ software. OpenSSL
>>   isn't free.
>
>    This argument grows very old.  If you don't like putting the original 
> author's name in your application, write a replacement.  I wish we didn't 
> have to use OpenSSL but nothing else was available and usable at the time.  
> If you want to complain about something, how about that breaks BC every 
> release, is poorly documented and difficult to use, especially from C++?  
> Regardless, GnuPG does not (or at least did not previously) provide fully 
> functional SSL support.  OpenSSL provides SSL2/3, TLS, S/MIME, most of the 
> PKCS##, and all the lowlevel functions.

There is GNU TLS <http://www.gnutls.org/>.  AFAIK, GPL is incompatible
with the OpenSSL license, despite the FAQ on the OpenSSL site saying
otherwise.