Subject: Re: bug#37221: 27.0.50; gnus fails to open connection post-NSM update

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:59:35 +0200

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

> Iʼve spotted one possible problem: nsm-query runs even when the
> connection is unencrypted, which ends up doing (insert nil), which
> aborts the connection. Does the following help? (Lars, why is nsm
> prompting for unencrypted connections?)

It runs for all kinds of connections -- a non-encrypted one could, for
instance, be one that's a result of a downgrade attack.

So if it now assumes that the connection is always encrypted, that's a
new bug.  Hm...  anybody know of a server that absolutely not doesn't
have STARTTLS that I can test with?  :-)

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