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author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2004-02-22 08:14:44 +0000 |
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committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2004-02-22 08:14:44 +0000 |
commit | 9339343817a1f547a423d06dfbd290ef375150aa (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/tex/preface.tex b/doc/tex/preface.tex index a06f76d9b7..77730ea34b 100644 --- a/doc/tex/preface.tex +++ b/doc/tex/preface.tex @@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ \section*{Introduction} This document tries to demonstrate and explain the \gnutls{} library API. A brief introduction to the protocols and the technology involved, is -also included. That way a \tls{} application programmer can better understand +also included so that an application programmer can better understand the \gnutls{} purpose and actual offerings. Even if \gnutls{} is a typical library software, it operates over several security and cryptographic protocols, which require the programmer -to make careful and correct usage of them. Otherwise he risks to offer -just a false sense of security. Security is a very general term for computer -software and cannot be restricted to a single cryptographic library. -A program should not be considered secure just because it uses \gnutls{}, +to make careful and correct usage of them, otherwise he risks to offer +just a false sense of security. Security and the network security terms +are very general terms even for computer software thus cannot be easily +restricted to a single cryptographic library. +For that reason, do not consider a program secure just because it uses \gnutls{}; there are several ways to compromise a program or a communication line and \gnutls{} only helps with some of them. \par |