GNU Transport Layer Security Library 1.7.0 review

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GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)
File size: 4123K
Developer: n.mavroyanopoulos
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GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. GNU Transport Layer Security Library implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols, accompanied with authentication methods such as X.509, OpenPGP, and SRP.

Here are some key features of "GNU Transport Layer Security Library":
Support for TLS 1.1 and SSL 3.0 protocols
Support for TLS extensions
Support for authentication using the SRP protocol
Support for authentication using both X.509 certificates
and OpenPGP keys Support for X.509 and OpenPGP certificate handling.
Supports all the strong encryption algorithms
Supports compression
Runs on most Unix platforms

What's New in This Release:
This is the first release on a new development branch.
Preliminary support for TLS 1.2 was added.
The default protocol priority tries both TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
The anonself test now prints a lot of debugging information, including TLS version.
Documentation fixes were made in OpenCDK to avoid some gtk-doc warnings.
The gnulib files were updated.

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