From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Oleksii Shevchuk <alxchk@gmail.com>,
13374@debbugs.gnu.org, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: bug#13374: 24.?; open-gnutls-stream insecurity
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:20:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ehhw2tn3.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rkr4lwv60t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:06 -0500")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Could you look at this report, with a view to possibly changing it in
> emacs-24 branch, if appropriate? Thanks.
Well, the issue is what we do when we get a certificate we can't
validate.
The traditional thing to do is to query the user for whether to connect
anyway, and whether to record a permanent exception for that
certificate.
The code to do that hasn't been written yet.
It's very common for SMTP and IMAP servers to use self-signed
certificates, so just forcing ":validate t" for all connections would
essentially mean that Emacs would be unusable for reading/sending email
(using encryption) before that code has been written.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 10:20 bug#13374: 24.?; open-gnutls-stream insecurity Oleksii Shevchuk
2013-01-08 1:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-08 4:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-01-08 4:27 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-08 4:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-08 14:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 14:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-08 15:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-18 22:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
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