QSslSocket

[Alon Bar-Lev]

> I know OpenSSL is the de-facto standard library for cryptography but I
> wonder, if OpenSSL posed so many problems, why not use another
> library? For instance, libtomcrypt
> (http://libtom.org/?page=features&newsitems=5&whatfile=crypt) is
> public domain and implements more or less the same feature set.

1. libtom library does not seem to support TLS/SSL...

2. GnuTLS is alternative, but it *MUCH* weaker than OpenSSL.

3. As it seems kde developers wish to use Qt provided classes, so the
decision is of Trolltech.

For example, I would have expected that Trolltech will provide
SChannel implementation on Win32, and plugable implementation on *NIX.

Alon.