Footnotes

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If this is not possible then please consult Interoperability.

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MAC stands for Message Authentication Code. It can be described as a keyed hash algorithm. See RFC2104.

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See also the Server Name Indication extension on serverind.

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See LDAP, IMAP etc.

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http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/

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http://www.opensc-project.org

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http://trousers.sourceforge.net/

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http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/

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The first message in a TLS handshake

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A key of 128 bits or 16 bytes should be sufficient for this purpose.

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Except for the RSA-EXPORT which is only enabled in EXPORT level.

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It depends on the group used. Primes with lesser bits are always faster, but also easier to break. See Selecting cryptographic key sizes for the acceptable security levels.

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such as the gnutls_certificate_credentials_t structures

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See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2011-02/msg00079.html.

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Check http://home.gna.org/cryptodev-linux/ for the Linux kernel implementation of /dev/crypto.

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