Re: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

I think this explains why twittering-mode cannot create an auth key for 
twitter after username and password get entered.  This happened in 
earlier versions of emacs 24.x and I gave up on twittering-mode for that 
reason.

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Alexis wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:39:46
> From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
> To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze
> 
>
> Hi all,
>
> Context: manually-compiled Emacs 24.5 on Debian Jessie x86_64.
>
> For a while i'd been facing the problem that, when i opened an HTML email 
> (erk) in mu4e, Emacs would freeze; my only recourse was to terminate the 
> Emacs process.
>
> Today i worked out that a call to `openssl` is the source of the problem: 
> installing the `gnutls-bin` package and modifying the value of the variable 
> `tls-program` to only call `gnutls-cli` fixed the issue.
>
> Modifying `tls-program` to add the "-no_ssl3" switch to the `openssl` 
> invocation had not helped.
>
> Of course, OpenSSL's internals are apparently a wretched hive of scum, so i'm 
> wondering if anyone else has faced this problem? Is this a known issue?
>
>
> Alexis.
>
>

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