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).

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 21:04:24 +0200

"Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Also, it would be good (though I don't know whether a generic answer
> is possible) to give some guidance on "reasonable" values for
> `gnutls-min-prime-bits' as compared to cases where it would be
> better to contact the sysadmin of the server requesting a change in
> the setup of the server.

Yeah.  And I think `gnutls-min-prime-bits' should default to whatever
that "reasonable" is, because there's apparently quite a few servers out
there that has less bits than whatever the GnuTLS default is.  Which
isn't a very good user experience.

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