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

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From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 19404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 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 18:17:22 +0100

David Engster writes:
> If a certificate is "self-signed", this means that issuer and subject
> are the same entity, i.e., the string in there is identical. There are
> some rules how these strings must be compared. I think(!) that if you
> simply compare them byte by byte, you should err on the side of
> safety. But I would assume there is a function for that in GnuTLS that
> adheres to RFC5280 for comparing such things.

I've asked on the GnuTLS mailing list.

-David

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