Subject: Re: bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:56:24 +0200

On 12/18/2014 07:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> OK, let me rephrase: How can a user, a mere mortal, like myself or
> Dmitry, tell that this certificate is OK, while the one I was
> presented in my problem is not?

Web browser vendors have simply decided that a self-signed certificate 
is never okay. That's why I'm surprised by the answer to this report.

Also because obtaining a properly signed certificate is relatively easy 
these days.