[$] Emacs & TLS

<p>A recent query about the status of network security (TLS settings inparticular) in Emacs led to a long thread in the emacs-devel mailing list. That threadtouched on a number of different areas, including using OpenSSL (or otherTLS libraries) rather thanGnuTLS, what kinds of problems should lead to complaints out of the box, what settings should be the default, and when those settings couldchange for Emacs so as not to discombobulate users. The latter issue isone that lots of projects struggle with: what kinds of changes areappropriate for a bug-fix release versus a feature release. For Emacs, itslengthy development cycle, coupled with the perceived urgency ofsecurity changes, makes that question even more difficult.