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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Kopete in kdenetwork
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-02-22 17:18:41
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On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:44, Neil Stevens wrote:
> libpsi is nowhere near ready for a KDE release yet, therefore the jabber
> plugin should stay in kdenonbeta or thereabouts.  It uses nothing in
> kdelibs, and even has its own SSL implementation.  Justin Karneges, Till
> Gerken, and I have been looking at ways to make it useful for KDE apps
> witout forking, but nothing has been produced yet.
>
> Eventually some of us want to see the to-be-renamed jabber library in
> kdelibs, but that's another matter.

   One more point, shipping SSL code that doesn't conform to KDE settings, or 
that does not even implement basic authenticity checks should not go into 
distribution.  We have had to make security advisories about much smaller 
things already.

-- 

George Staikos

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