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bug#16784: 24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls beca
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#16784: 24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls because of a non-verified certificate |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:48:25 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:43:00 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
TZ> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:50:32 +0100 sb@dod.no wrote:
s> Entering news.gmane.no nntp groups in gnus fails on Windows, because it
s> tries to upgrade the connection using STARTTLS and fails because the
s> news.gmane.org certificate is self signed.
SB> I would like one of the following solutions:
SB> 1. The possibility to switch off the attempted upgrade to STARTTLS for
SB> NNTP connections
I think Lars has to give an opinion here.
SB> 2. The possibility to tell GNU-TLS not to be so stringent about
SB> certificate verification
The latest Emacs trunk has this:
(defcustom gnutls-verify-error nil
"If non-nil, this should be a list of checks per hostname regex or t."
:group 'gnutls
:version "24.4"
:type '(choice
(const t)
(repeat :tag "List of hostname regexps with flags for each"
(list
(choice :tag "Hostname"
(const ".*" :tag "Any hostname")
regexp)
(set (const :trustfiles)
(const :hostname))))))
So basically customize that variable and add :trustfiles and :hostname
for the respective verifications, or nil to disable them.
Also note that internally, we use some default flags for
`gnutls-negotiate'. From the docstring:
VERIFY-FLAGS is a numeric OR of verification flags only for
`gnutls-x509pki' connections. See GnuTLS' x509.h for details;
here's a recent version of the list.
GNUTLS_VERIFY_DISABLE_CA_SIGN = 1,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT = 2,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_DO_NOT_ALLOW_SAME = 4,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_ANY_X509_V1_CA_CRT = 8,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_SIGN_RSA_MD2 = 16,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_SIGN_RSA_MD5 = 32,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_DISABLE_TIME_CHECKS = 64,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_DISABLE_TRUSTED_TIME_CHECKS = 128,
GNUTLS_VERIFY_DO_NOT_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT = 256
It must be omitted, a number, or nil; if omitted or nil it
defaults to GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT.
This is the current default, except as modified by the GnuTLS priority
string. I would expect callers such as Gnus to modify this, but not
normal users.
Ted
- bug#16784: 24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls because of a non-verified certificate,
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