There was an extensive discussion between Howard and nmav on that blog post a few months ago. nmav has completely deleted that discussion from the blog because

There was an extensive discussion between Howard and nmav on that blog post a few months ago. nmav has completely deleted that discussion from the blog because he didn't like the fact that additional problems with the GnuTLS code based were pointed out in that discussion. It is quite interesting that someone who is so tied into an open source project is against keeping a public discussion available to the world.