KDE Cryptography Module

Justin Karneges justin at affinix.com
Thu May 24 23:29:20 BST 2007


On Thursday 24 May 2007 2:58 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Justin Karneges wrote:
> >Given that Psi/Kopete also have special needs when it comes to sockets,
> > I simply figured that a QCA socket class would be a waste of time.
> >  There is nothing stopping someone from writing a socket wrapper to
> > QCA::TLS though. We even have one started already in
> > qca/examples/tlssocket.  But I have one question: who would use it?
>
> Everyone who is using sockets.
>
> My idea is to make all uses of sockets in KDE pass through that class.
> When SSL/TLS isn't in use, it should have a very minimal overhead on top
> of QTcpSocket.

Ah, right, KDE is now targetting QTcpSocket rather than using its own socket.  
I guess you don't need so much flexibility then.

-Justin




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