GNU bug report logs - #37221
27.0.50; gnus fails to open connection post-NSM update

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37221 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37221: 27.0.50; gnus fails to open connection post-NSM update
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:59:35 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> 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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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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