GNU bug report logs - #23027
25.1.50; Emacs refuses to talk to eternal-september because they now use an MD5 certificate, apparently

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 23027-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Anssi Saari <as <at> sci.fi>
Cc: 23027-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23027: 25.1.50;
 Emacs refuses to talk to eternal-september because they now use an
 MD5 certificate, apparently
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:43:03 +0200

Anssi Saari <as <at> sci.fi> writes:

> Some comments on this issue (I originally reported this on
> gnu.emacs.gnus). The machine in question runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and
> seems to have two versions of GnuTLS installed, 2.6 and 2.8, 2.6 is
> the default. If I force GnuTLS 2.8 then I have no issue.

Yes, I upgraded this laptop to the newest Ubuntu, and the problem went
away.  So I guess eternal-september uses something too new for the
previous Ubuntu version.

I'll close the bug.

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