bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane

[David Engster]

David Engster writes:
> If a certificate is "self-signed", this means that issuer and subject
> are the same entity, i.e., the string in there is identical. There are
> some rules how these strings must be compared. I think(!) that if you
> simply compare them byte by byte, you should err on the side of
> safety. But I would assume there is a function for that in GnuTLS that
> adheres to RFC5280 for comparing such things.

I've asked on the GnuTLS mailing list.

-David