libvncclient: improve compatibility with GnuTLS 3.8 #630
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Since GnuTLS 3.8, TTLS-SRP is disabled by default at compile time [1]. As a result, connecting to a server via TLS fails with:
On the other hand, TLS-SRP is apparently unused in libvncclient. It seems TLS-SRP requires providing serveral parameters, including a username and a password, via specific GnuTLS API [2], which I didn't find in the codebase.
[1] https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1681
[2] https://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Authentication-using-SRP.html