Re: [chrony-dev] Experimental NTS support

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 12:21:41AM +0200, Vincent Blut wrote:
> > I must admit CVE-2020-13777 [1] has cooled me down a lot about GnuTLS.
> > OpenSSL 3.0 (currently in alpha stage) will use the Apache License 2.0 which
> > isn’t compatible with the GPLv2. Sigh, what a mess!

Remember GPL3 is not compatible with GPL2.
> > [1] https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1011
>
> If I understand it correctly (and I don't really know much about TLS),
> chrony is not impacted as it doesn't support resuming TLS sessions. In
> the context of NTS that doesn't look like a useful feature.
>
> Even if there wasn't the licensing issue, I'm not sure if we would
> be better off with openssl.
>
> Have a look at their CVE lists:
> https://gnutls.org/security-new.html
> https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html
>
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> Miroslav Lichvar
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