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Re: Testing the gnutls support


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Testing the gnutls support
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:29:59 +0200
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Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> It's probably cleaner to save every invalid certificate in a list and
> give the user a UI to choose which certificates they wish to accept,
> perhaps linking to the last validation failure and whatever else will
> help the user identify which certificates he wants to accept (maybe a
> hash ID of the certificate in the messages buffer).

What's the use case here?

If I'm connecting to imap.gmail.com, I probably do want to be prompted
with a "invalid certificate" if the certificate is invalid.  And
possibly a "view certificate" before accepting it anyway.  Is anything
more complicated than that necessary?

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