libtasn1 in other programs), you can get it from
@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html}.
-The OpenPGP part of GnuTLS-extra needs OpenCDK for parsing OpenPGP
-packets. A copy of OpenCDK is included in GnuTLS. If you want to
-install it separately (e.g., to make it possibly to use libtasn1 in
-other programs), you can get it from
-@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html}. Use parameter
-@code{--with-included-opencdk} to unconditionally use the internal
-copy of OpenCDK. Use parameter
+The OpenPGP part of GnuTLS uses a stripped down version of OpenCDK for
+parsing OpenPGP packets. It is included GnuTLS. Use parameter
@code{--disable-openpgp-authentication} to disable the OpenPGP
-functionality in GnuTLS.
+functionality in GnuTLS. Unfortunately, we didn't have resources to
+maintain the code in a separate library.
Regarding the Guile bindings, there are additional installation
considerations, see @xref{Guile Preparations}.
@acronym{GnuTLS} library. The
@acronym{Libtasn1}@footnote{@url{ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnutls/libtasn1/}},
a library which offers @acronym{ASN.1} parsing capabilities, is used
-for the @acronym{X.509} certificate parsing functions, and
-@acronym{Opencdk}@footnote{@url{ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnutls/opencdk/}}
+for the @acronym{X.509} certificate parsing functions. A smaller
+version of
+@acronym{OpenCDK}@footnote{@url{ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnutls/opencdk/}}
is used for the @acronym{OpenPGP} key support in @acronym{GnuTLS}.
The ``Crypto backend'' is provided by the
@acronym{Libgcrypt}@footnote{@url{ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/}}