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bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when conn
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:56:52 +0200 |
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, 19404@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:53:07 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > OK, let me rephrase: How can a user, a mere mortal, like myself or
> > Dmitry, tell that this certificate is OK, while the one I was
> > presented in my problem is not?
>
> That's not generally possible.
Too bad.
> Unfortunately there's no difference between a certificate signed by
> a CA that you don't happen to have in your CA bundle, and a
> self-signed certificate. Unless I've misunderstood something.
>
> I think that's one of many unfortunate design choices made when the
> certificate system was set up.
>
> So the "(self-signed)" string we have in our warnings should perhaps be
> changed to "(possibly self-signed)".
Is this text returned by GnuTLS, or do we produce it in Emacs? If the
latter, can _we_ somehow distinguish between the two cases and add
some text to that effect?
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Ivan Shmakov, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, David Engster, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, David Engster, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, David Engster, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Ivan Shmakov, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, David Engster, 2014/12/18
- bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane, Ivan Shmakov, 2014/12/19