[vlc-devel] Re: vlc: svn commit r18300 (courmisch)

[Mark Moriarty]

Excellent description, thanks! 

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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:44 PM
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Subject: [vlc-devel] Re: vlc: svn commit r18300 (courmisch)

Le mercredi 6 décembre 2006 23:33, Mark Moriarty a écrit :
> What happens if gnutls is removed, then, for those of us who must be 
> concerned with encryption laws?
> What parts of VLC break?

I suppose Win32 and Mac OS X builds link libgcrypt statically. 
Currently, we only use it (indirectly) in the GnuTLS plugin. That's in use
for HTTP/SSL and HTTP/TLS support. These are optionaly supported by the HTTP
interface, HTTP stream output and HTTP access.

Removing the GnuTLS plugin (libgnutls_plugin.*) removes the sensitive code,
while retaining non-SSL HTTP. You can simply not compile libgcrypt (nor
libgnutls, and use ./configure --disable-gnutls). That is not the only
decryption stuff in VLC though; DVD CSS is probably a lot more sensitive, as
it involves decryption/cracking, while GnuTLS makes "normal" use of ciphers.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont

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