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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:46:02 +0200

> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:20:13 +0200
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> CC: David Engster <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> On 12/19/2014 02:11 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
> > There's quite a few self-signed sites out there where that's not the
> > case, though.
> 
> "certificate’s issuer is not known" would be fine in this case.

"certificate’s issuer is not known or couldn't be verified" is even
better.

> Users shouldn't rely on "self-signed" as some proof of validity anyway.

Agreed.