From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: Oleksii Shevchuk <alxchk@gmail.com>, 13374@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13374: 24.?; open-gnutls-stream insecurity
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rkr4lwv60t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwwlz43m.fsf@Black.ICE> (Oleksii Shevchuk's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:20:45 +0200")
Hi Ted,
Could you look at this report, with a view to possibly changing it in
emacs-24 branch, if appropriate? Thanks.
Oleksii Shevchuk wrote:
> open-gnutls-stream wrapper doesn't pass :verify-hostname-error t
> :verify-error t to gnutls-negotiate. So MitM is possible when you use
> gnus and other packages.
>
> Even with :verify-hostname-error t :verify-error t gnutls-negotiate
> doesn't produce error with selfsigned CA certificate, when :type
> 'gnutls-x509pki passed.
>
> I use next in my .gnus:
>
> (defun open-gnutls-stream (name buffer host service)
> (gnutls-negotiate :process (open-network-stream name buffer host service)
> :hostname host
> :verify-hostname-error t :verify-error t))
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 1:05 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 [this message]
2013-01-08 4:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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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