From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] GnuTLS: Support TOFU certificate checking.
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:56:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fvey4nl0.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3fveyy7ov.fsf@stories.gnus.org
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:09:20 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> I don't see why the application would need to know much, if anything,
LMI> about it. `open-network-stream' would say "Invalid certificate. (Bla
LMI> bla.) Connect anyway?" and the user would type `y' or `n'.
LMI> I can't really see how that would disturb smtpmail, Gnus, nnimap, pop3,
LMI> rmail, erc or any other application I can think of...
What about `emacs --batch'? That change would affect the URL retrieval
code and thus unattended package installs for instance. Do you just
reject certificates in batch mode? Or add a `--tofu-accept=SERVER_REGEX'
option to Emacs for batch mode?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-08 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 21:16 [PATCH RFC] GnuTLS: Support TOFU certificate checking Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-07 21:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-07 21:55 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 11:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 11:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 12:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 12:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 12:39 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 12:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 12:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 13:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 13:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 13:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:59 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 14:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 14:56 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-10-08 15:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 15:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-09 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-09 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-08 13:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 14:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-08 15:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 15:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-08 16:09 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 17:07 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-09 13:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
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