Am 10. Jun, 2020 schwätzte Seabass via PLUG-discuss so:

moin moin,

> What exactly is gnutls used for?
> Web servers, or do general users actually use this for TLS connections?
> Or something else?

I don't know, but I believe it's in the same category as OpenSSL, so could
be anything that wants to use TLS.

debian reverse depends shows 354 packages.

$ apt-cache rdepends libgnutls30 | grep -vc ^lib
354
$

$ apt-cache rdepends libgnutls30 | grep -Evc '^  lib'
258
$

$ apt-cache rdepends libgnutls30 | grep -Ev '^  lib' | awk -F- '{print $1 }' | sort -u | wc
     141     142    1337
$

Here are some from that list:

telepathy, weechat, vlc, wget, rsyslog, abiword, cups, emacs

ciao,

der.hans

>> moin moin,
>>
>> GnuTLS sessions can be resumed, allowing man in the middle attacks
>>
>> get yer updates
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1011
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans

-- 
#  https://www.LuftHans.com   https://www.PhxLinux.org
#  "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have
#  nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about
#  free speech because you have nothing to say." -- Edward Snowden