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1 [[meta title="GnuTLS 2.6.x enables Monkeysphere to read authentication subkeys"]]
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5 **2009-04-05 UPDATE:** Since Monkeysphere no longer depends on GnuTLS
6 at all ([moved to using Perl for key
7 translation](news/release-0.24-1)), and GnuTLS 2.6 is now available in
8 Debian testing, we have removed the GnuTLS patches from the repostiory
9 (although they will continue to be available in the history, or
10 course).
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14 We [announced earlier](/news/modified-gnutls-2.4.x-available) that the
15 Monkeysphere project was providing patched versions of GnuTLS to
16 support one piece of Monkeysphere functionality.  Fortunately, those
17 patches are no longer needed, because as of [version
18 2.6](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3135),
19 GnuTLS contains the necessary functionality natively.
20
21 Therefore, our project will no longer provide patched copies of
22 GnuTLS, though we will continue to keep the patch alive in in [our git
23 repository](/community) until GnuTLS 2.6 has been more widely adopted.
24
25 If you were pulling patched versions of GnuTLS 2.4 from the
26 Monkeysphere archive, you may prefer to pull GnuTLS 2.6 from [debian's
27 experimental archive](http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental) (at
28 least until it GnuTLS 2.6 drops into unstable, which should happen
29 shortly after the release of
30 [lenny](http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny).