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bug#16784: 24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls beca
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#16784: 24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls because of a non-verified certificate |
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Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:14:12 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
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>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 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
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>>> I think Lars has to give an opinion here.
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>> I think we should always do encryption, even though we can't do validation.
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> The reason I asked for this, is that if an ecryption I didn't ask for
> causes the connection to fail, I would like to be able to turn it off
> and have my unsafe connection.
Yeah, but I's saying that the connection shouldn't fail. >"? If you
didn't ask for encryption, but Emacs decides to do STARTTLS anyway, then
Emacs should not do identity validation.
Except perhaps just issue a message saying "couldn't validate TLS
identity" or something at the most.
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