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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-12-13 22:14:25 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-12-13 22:14:25 +0100
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@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ and GC-related tasks. The daemon mainly uses ‘libstore’ from Nix.
Integrating it in Guix itself will make Guix self-contained, thereby
simplifying our users’ lives.
+** Remove dependency on OpenSSL
+
+The ‘openssl’ command-line tool is used in libstore to sign store paths
+to be exported, and to check such signatures. The signing keys are
+usually in /etc/nix/signing-key.{pub,sec}. They are a PKCS#8-encoded
+X.509 SubjectPublicKeyInfo. These can be decoded with the [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnutls/2012-12/msg00012.html][C API of
+GnuTLS]], but not yet with its Guile bindings. There’s also
+‘gnutls_privkey_sign_data’ to sign, and related functions.
+
* infrastructure
** have a Hydra instance build Guix packages