Re: The netsec thread

[Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>> Sorry I got lost in that giant thread.
>>>> `gnutls_dh_set_prime_bits` is only deprecated on GnuTLS 3.1.7+. Are we
>>>> dropping support for all version < 3.1.7? I'd be super happy to do it
>>>> if that's the case and remove this var and the C code entirely.
>>>
>>> Sure, but making it obsolete won't mean that we drop anything until,
>>> like, 2023, and by then GnuTLS will be up to 5.4.13.
>>
>> I take this means removing the related code entirely but not declare
>> in the NEWS file like 26.1 that we are now requiring GnuTLS >= 3.1.7.
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> No, marking something as obsolete means that we leave the variable and
> code in Emacs for a couple of release cycles.
>

What do you want to do with the 256-bit standard value then?