SSL in KDE going forward

Dawit A adawit at kde.org
Wed Jun 8 21:24:18 BST 2011


Would asking for client certficate authentication support be out of
the scope or does Qt's SSL already support that ? Last I checked it
did not and there is a pending but report about this against kio_http.
See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167668.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Richard Moore <richmoore44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Right now, we have the opportunity to make sure that Qt's SSL classes
> offer us the facilities we need in KDE. I'll be attending the QCS and
> will most likely be working on the SSL stack at the time. If anyone
> knows anything that we need in KDE that's not currently offered (or
> even more importantly can't be added from the existing APIs) then now
> would be a good time to say. The stuff that is currently being looked
> at is all listed on the following wiki page:
> http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Improving_Qts_SSL_Support
>
> If you know something that is needed for KDE but isn't listed then let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich.
> ps. designing a new non-SSL based infrastructure for online
> transactions is out of scope.#




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