== NTBTLS

`//Not Too Bad TLS//`

is a TLS client-only library developed by Werner Koch.
* It started (2014) as a stripped down fork of PolarSSL (now called mbed tls),
*  using libgcrypt and existing GnuPG modules for X.509 certificate handling.

Status: **20160913: pre-alpha**


https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ntbtls.git;a=summary

=== Rationale

TLS client connections are needed in GnuPG for transport of certificate, pubkeys and revocation
information. Using gnutls, mbed_tls or a different TLS library would introduce additional crypto code
which makes the whole system harder to evaluate. GnuPG already has a number of the required
technical functionality.