Subject: bug#11664: 24.1; Cannot use OpenSSL when GnuTLS is installed

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:01:32 -0400

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.bugs as well.

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> [email-masked] wrote:
>
>> It appears that one cannot use OpenSSL when GnuTLS is installed.
>>
>> Gnus, for instance, will use GnuTLS opportunistically.
>
> Can you expain why you want to do this; ie force calling an external
> program rather than use built-in support?

There's a few reasons.

Here's one:

GnuTLS does not allow one to specify a directory of certificates to
use.

OpenSSL does.