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 <h2>Optional Runtime Requirements</h2>
 <ul>
+<li><a href="http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/">PyOpenSSL</a> (python-pyopenssl package in Debian) for <em>secure</em> SSL/TLS. Python's default SSL is insecure, so this package is highly recommended!</li>
 <li>dnsutils (or whatever package provides the nslookup binary) for SRV support; if you don't know what that is, you don't need it</li>
 <li>gtkspell and aspell-LANG where lang is your locale eg. en, fr etc</li>
 <li>GnomePythonExtras 2.10 or above (aka gnome-python-desktop) so you can avoid compiling trayicon and gtkspell</li>