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bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellma
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Roland Winkler |
Subject: |
bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough). |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:04:13 -0500 |
On Wed Apr 18 2012 Glenn Morris wrote:
> > Despite these error messages, Emacs is sending the mails I want to
> > send. In that sense, I cannot tell how relevant these error messages are.
>
> Me neither. I think it means it is falling back to a non-encrypted
> connection. You can try setting gnutls-min-prime-bits.
>
> If that is so, the error message should probably say something along
> those lines.
You are right. The "fatal error" disappears if I set
gnutls-min-prime-bits to 256. Yet this choice was just a guess based
on the custom declaration of this variable that suggests a value of
512.
I would appreciate if someone more knowledgable could review the
error messages that I have seen such that they become more helpful
for a nonexpert. Also it would be great if the docstring of
gnutls-min-prime-bits was more precise.
- What is the default value used for min-prime-bits if
gnutls-min-prime-bits is nil?
- What are reasonable values for this variable such that a safe
client-server handshake remains possible, if one needs to customize
this variable? (Or the other way round: if a server wants to use a
prime that is too small, it might really be the better solution to
contact its sysadmin. Yet I couldn't tell when a prime falls below
such a threshold.)
Thanks,
Roland
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Roland Winkler, 2012/04/17
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Glenn Morris, 2012/04/18
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough).,
Roland Winkler <=
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Glenn Morris, 2012/04/19
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/04/19
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Glenn Morris, 2012/04/19
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Roland Winkler, 2012/04/19
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Ted Zlatanov, 2012/04/24
- bug#11267: 24.0.95; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough)., Roland Winkler, 2012/04/24