[Development] Hacking guide for Qt's SSL Support

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 3 de January de 2012 10.57.11, Craig.Scott at csiro.au wrote:
> Unfortunately, OpenSSL is not part of the LSB, so if you want SSL support on
> linux and you want your application to be LSB compliant, you end up having
> to link in the OpenSSL libraries statically. That's not necessarily a bad
> thing from a security point of view, but it is an annoyance. NSS, on the
> other hand, *is* in the LSB. If NSS was able to meet Qt's needs, then it
> would be useful to have a NSS backend. Obviously, if NSS has issues as you
> mentioned, then that makes it a bit of a moot point. I don't think GnuTLS
> is in the LSB, but the LSB navigator site is currently down so I can't
> easily check.

I remember voicing my concerns about NSS when LSB decided to standardise on 
it. The reason was then that Qt could *not* use NSS, since it was developed in 
the US.

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