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wishlist: gnutls-verify-error needs a 'ask mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:22:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #9 received at 29978 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 29978 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29978: wishlist: gnutls-verify-error needs a 'ask mode
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:23:53 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> On Jan 04 2018, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Verification using gnutls-verify-error is currently an either-or
>> proposition: if the verification fails, there's no fallback. Typical
>> browser implementations allow querying the user for the desired
>> action, emacs should allow something similar.
>
> Isn't that what NSM is about?

NSM doesn't currently come into play until gnutls.c has finished
setting up the TLS connection. Since gnutls.c is the one doing the
verification, by then it's too late.

Robert
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