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To ease GnuTLS’ integration with existing applications, a
compatibility layer with the OpenSSL library is included
in the gnutls-openssl library. This compatibility layer is not
complete and it is not intended to completely re-implement the OpenSSL
API with GnuTLS. It only provides limited source-level
compatibility.
The prototypes for the compatibility functions are in the ‘gnutls/openssl.h’ header file. The limitations imposed by the compatibility layer include: