GNU bug report logs - #19404
25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

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From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: 19404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:47:44 +0100

Ivan Shmakov writes:
>>>>>> David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de> writes:
>>>>>> David Engster writes:
>
>  >> It *could* be self-signed. I don't know the best way in libgnutls to
>  >> detect this. You probably have to compare issuer and subject, or
>  >> similar.
>
>  > So my guess would be: use gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn2 or maybe
>  > gnutls_x509_crt_get_subject and compare to
>  > gnutls_certificate_get_issuer.  If equal -> self-signed.  But that
>  > could be wrong.  Best place is to ask on the GnuTLS list.
>
> 	If anything, it’s the respective public key fingerprints that
> 	are to be compared.

Sorry, I don't get it. Which respective public key fingerprints? There's
just one certificate.

-David
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