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25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:11:46 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> It simply means: "The certificate’s issuer is not known. This is the
>> case if the issuer is not included in the trusted certificate list."
>
> I suggest that we say something like this, indeed.

However, this means nothing to people who don't know what it already
means, while "self-signed" is something that more people understand.

But the suggestion to only suggest that the certificate may be
self-signed if the issuer and host name are the same may help a bit.
There's quite a few self-signed sites out there where that's not the
case, though.

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