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

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
Subject: bug#19404: 25.0.50; Gnus shows self-signed certificate warning when connecting to Gmane
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:20:13 +0200

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.

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

Strictly speaking, it's still insecure, even if only one party may be 
listening.

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