7.9.6 Compatibility with the OpenSSL library

To ease GnuTLS’ integration with existing applications, a compatibility layer with the OpenSSL library is included in the gnutls-openssl library. This compatibility layer is not complete and it is not intended to completely re-implement the OpenSSL API with GnuTLS. It only provides limited source-level compatibility.

The prototypes for the compatibility functions are in the ‘gnutls/openssl.h’ header file. The limitations imposed by the compatibility layer include:

• Error handling is not thread safe.

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