GNU bug report logs - #16784
24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls because of a non-verified certificate

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From: Steinar Bang <sb <at> dod.no>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16784: 24.3; Problems opening NNTP connection: failing starttls because of a non-verified certificate
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:33:59 +0100

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> 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

>> I think Lars has to give an opinion here.

> I think we should always do encryption, even though we can't do validation.

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.

I would rather have an unsafe conncetion than no connection (which is
what I seem to have right now on Windows).

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