From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: 766397@bugs.debian.org, 766397-forwarded@bugs.debian.org,
Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Subject: Re: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:02:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjcnj2k6.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141022193441.GA11872@roeckx.be>
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The following issue was just reported against emacs23 in Debian, and
from a quick glance, it looks like 24.4 still uses s_client, so if this
is a problem, it's perhaps still relevant.
Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
> It has come to my attention that Gnus is using s_client to set up
> SSL connections to retrieve email. Please stop using that.
> s_client is a debug tool, it does not set up a secure connection,
> it ignores all errors and just continues. It also doesn't do
> checks it should be doing. This is all documented behaviour.
>
> Please get rid of all documentation, configurations and examples
> that tell you how to set it up using s_client.
>
> I've also seen examples adding -ssl2 and -ssl3 which is really
> really broken.
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
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[not found] <20141022193441.GA11872@roeckx.be>
2014-10-22 20:02 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2014-10-22 20:05 ` Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL Rob Browning
2014-10-23 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-23 15:57 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24 13:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-02-20 15:28 ` Kurt Roeckx
2016-02-21 2:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-02-22 20:38 ` Bug#766397: " Antoine Beaupre
2017-04-16 17:28 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-22 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 21:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-23 16:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-23 17:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-23 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 7:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-27 19:42 ` Filipp Gunbin
2014-10-23 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-23 18:00 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 18:37 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 18:43 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 18:57 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 18:59 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 19:11 ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-23 19:42 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 19:50 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 20:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 21:05 ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-24 2:56 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 21:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-24 3:00 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-24 20:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-24 21:14 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-24 21:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-25 0:36 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-25 15:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-25 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-26 8:15 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-26 11:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-26 12:45 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-26 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-26 7:38 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-24 21:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-25 0:42 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-27 17:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-27 19:39 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 7:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 7:45 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-28 8:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-28 15:19 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 15:33 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-28 16:20 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-28 17:11 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29 3:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 15:10 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 3:06 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29 7:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 11:19 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 19:03 ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-24 13:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-25 7:31 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-25 14:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-25 15:49 ` removing SSLv3 support by default from the Emacs GnuTLS integration (was: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.) Ted Zlatanov
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