[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Add secure transport TLS module

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello,

On 18.12.2013, at 18:32, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> GnuTLS should be autodetected as before. My point was that you may want to
> disable GnuTLS by default from MacOS *contribs*, not from MacOS VLC.

Yep.

> Then it should be kept enabled on MacOS, but it is questionable for iOS.
> This is a very ancilliary feature, since you nede to install your own
> server key pair for server-side TLS.

GnuTLS is a gross hack on iOS right now which was the major reason for writing the module (as well as being able to deploy hardware accelerated cryptography).

> Sorry but while this is desirable from user perspective, I think this will
> not work. The module probing is done _before_ we know which certificate is
> used and the protocol state machine cannot be rewound at that point.

Ok, fair enough.