From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NSM certificate prompt
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:09:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iohfe59c.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4qb4eeg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:01:59 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> The problem is to distribute and maintain such root
>> certificates. Browsers have them built-in, but I don't believe Emacs
>> (eww) shall do so.
>
> GnuTLS on Windows uses the CertEnumCertificatesInStore API to retrieve
> all the Root and Certification Authority certificates known to the
> system. I suppose at least IE uses the same API, so I wonder how come
> GnuTLS fails to validate the certificates, while IE succeeds.
As usual, I cannot speak about MS Windows. But even if IE uses the same
API, it might read the root certificates from somewhere else.
And like other browsers, it might also carry builtin root certificates inside.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-13 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-13 14:43 NSM certificate prompt Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 15:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 16:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 17:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 15:27 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-13 15:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 16:57 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-13 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 17:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 18:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 19:16 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-13 20:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-13 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 17:06 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-13 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 19:09 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2014-12-13 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 19:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-13 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 0:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-14 1:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-14 3:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 8:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-14 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 12:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-19 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 16:42 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-12-19 16:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-19 19:53 ` Simon Leinen
2014-12-19 21:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 11:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-14 12:52 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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